Author: Chessfun
Date: 18:24:29 04/15/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 16:52:35, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On April 15, 2001 at 14:51:48, Chessfun wrote: > >>Why must it? why can't it simply be the strongest commercially available >>program?, straight out of the box. > >That could also be a possibility, depending on what standards you wish the match >to be played by. That is, an amateur or a professional event. And since it's >supposed to be a challenge event, the latter option seems like the most obvious >choice. How does taking the program from a box or using the current programer with his current version change it from Professional to Amateur? The only way I can see that is that the programmer makes his living at it. >The other scenario would lack the validation of the authors and distributors, >which I believe to be a necessity if it has to have any credibility in the >public whatsoever. Maybe I'm silly, but it seems very obvious. I think the public will generally accept the result regardless of validation of authors and distributors. The computer chess community is another matter. Besides were the comp to do well I don't see them actually at that point not joining in. Sarah.
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