Author: Tapio Huuhka
Date: 14:07:51 01/18/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 13:24:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >And humans use a brain. If anyone has an unfair advantage here, it is the >humans. Since the tablebase files are part of the computer chess system, they >are not outside information. But if you just want to declare them illegal, then >do it yourself. If the fide laws of chess applied in the way you say that you >do, they would not have allowed the matches that have taken place so far. Since >they do allow the matches, it must not be illegal. Use of a brain is not prohibited by the FIDE laws. Human brain may be creative, but it doesn't store information for a million chess games and lines of analysis like databases and hash tables do. Would you say that pen and paper plus ECO volumes are part of a human chess player? And would you say that crime is good, if you don't get caught. We can also take the argument further. A computer program is a set of notes, a set of rules and instructions executed by a computer. A chess program doesn't play without hardware, which uses the instructions of the program all the time during play. So the team of a chess program and a computer is by definition against the FIDE laws of chess. Naturally, these laws are written for human play and we would need other laws for human-computer play. But if you just want to beat the programs, you can do it any time by just applying the FIDE laws of chess.
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