Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:05:37 06/17/00
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Maybe, computers should not take part in normal human tournaments, championships and leagues etc. but there should be rated and well sponsored tournaments arranged for those humans who are actually interested in playing against computers at own risk (of losing etc.). And the incentives should be good prize money, and good elo ratings for winning games. Perhaps, there should be official computer ratings. If not too many honestly dispute it strongly (unless it can be scientifically concluded), perhaps it can be based on comp.vs. comp, and maybe combined with human (say, if there is a minimum of 100 serious tournament games to combine them with-although I'm not sure where those would come from). Standard hardware only, should be used, or standard combinations of hardware, which must not be changed more than once in 3 years, to give plenty of time for conclusive evidence and record keeping etc. If this system starts now with e.g. 4x500mhz. and if that is exactly identical in power to 2000mhz of pc's which will be available in half a year from now. then in 2 years from then, even if 2000mhz will be considered very slow, still it should be used for 6 months longer. By that time, I don't know if 2000mhz. will be all that bad, but 4-5000mhz may then be available. But also, there will probably be quite easy access to 10,000 or 20,000 power. 20,000mhz.will be 2000x10 the speed of the last 3 years, and about 100elo more in rating or even less. That can be determined for the next 3 years. If there are cheap mainframes available all around the world by then, of about 1 terrahertz, then perhaps they can be used. S.Taylor
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