Author: José Carlos
Date: 05:46:22 04/18/01
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On April 18, 2001 at 06:11:04, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > > >A lot of discussion is going on about the planned Kramnik machine match and I >think it is necessary to give you my point of view about the whole issue. I >refused to play in this event for various reasons which I will sum up below: > >· The final version of the program playing against Kramnik must be made >available to Kramnik end of July already. This makes an match with equal chances >impossible as it will be very easy for Mr. Kramnik to prepare and win a match >against any program under this circumstances. I would even say that it is >possible for human players of my strength to win a match against any program >with this conditions. > >· For a computer to play the match against Kramnik he must win a qualifier >against some other chess programs. This qualification tournament will be called >the BGN computer world chess championships and the winner will be called the BGN >computer chess world champion. I see no reasons to have another computer chess >world championship and another computer chess world champion besides the ICCA >tournaments and the ICCA champion so I will not play there. > >· The first time I have heard about this qualification tournament was two weeks >before the scheduled start of this event. > >· The event will be played with the autoplayer and without any representative of >the programs on site. IMO, this point is absolutely unacceptable. I mean, if the match will be _against_a_human_ and with the program _hand_operated_ it seems to me absolutely absurd to do the qualification _against_computers_ and _with_autoplayer_. Why not even do the qualification games at blitz and without opening books? I cannot understand anything. José C. [snip]
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