Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:37:35 03/19/98
Something weird happens in this site, or maybe no so much taking into account the appreciable non-sense involved in the very fact to expend time talking of chess computers; I refer to the fact that once and again absurd discussion appears and are furiously debated in infinite threads. This time is the learning function and the suposedly cheating behaviour of fritz and his parents. This is not a more intelligent discussion than that wheel coachs owners begun when vehicles pushed by steam begun to run and get passengers. They even talked of too high speeds -40 Miles and hour, at most, for the very first locomotives- for being resisted by human beings. Of course, they just tried to keep his bussiness running as usual. I don't see any reason why ed or any of the top programmers cannot do the same each time a competitor gets a new tool for getting an edge. There are not technical reasons and less philosofical ones of the type "only the engine matters and the rest is not the real thing" not to do so. I am a customer and what matters to me is the PROGRAM, what a I can get from the PROGRAM. I don' purchase engines, i purchase programs capable of playing against me because the engine, because the book, because the tables, because the learning function, etc. We, human beings, are who purchase programs, not another programs.Maybe a program, if capable of concience, could say "hey, this is not fair, your are using this or that device against me", but as much I am just a flesh and bones criature, I care less. I want a kind of perfomance and that's all. And if a program beat me just following a line of his books, great: that means that I have been not careful enought to learn theory. Next time I will do better and he will use his engine. Respect to suposeddly wrong evaluations people would do of the SSDF list because cooked lines, i don' t believe mass market chess consumers knows even about the existence of the SSDF and the rest, that is, we, know very well how it is done. Fernando
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