Author: Duncan Stanley
Date: 14:05:08 04/22/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 15:50:06, Albert Silver wrote: >On April 22, 2001 at 14:02:59, Duncan Stanley wrote: > >>On April 22, 2001 at 12:26:25, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >> >>> >>>I have received from the ICCA President David Levy a copy of an open letter >>>concerning the Kramnik match. I agree with all the points of his proposal and I >>>agree to participate in a qualifying match for the right to play Kramnik >>>according to the terms of the ICCA. Below you will find a copy of this open >>>letter. >>> >>>Best regards >>> Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, author of Shredder >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>An Open Letter to Professor Enrique Irazoqui >>>[ The Cadaques tournament and the Bahrain match ] >>> >>>Dear Professor Irazoqui, >>> >>[ snipped ] >> >>IMHO this 'open' letter is what is known in the trade as a 'spoiler'. >> >>When it comes to it in Bahrain the nature and type and selection process for the >>cyber opponent will be completely irrelevant. >> >>The public will not care one jot nor one tittle for complaints about 'fairness' >>in selection of a chess machine. >> >>One chess machine is much the same as any other, and probably completely >>unfathomable in any case. >> >>Fairness to members of the human race is one thing, but nobody gives a monkeys >>about 'fairness' to a machine, and probably rightly so. > >Well, let's also remember that no one thinks it is really about what is fair to >the programs but rather their programming creators: the programmers. When one >says it's not fair to Shredder, it implicitly means that it isn't fair to the >programmer and/or developing company. > Once the program is created it stands and falls on its own merits out in the big wide world. At this point the programmer is irrelevant. He no longer influences the program, the program produces whatever it produces itself, according to pre-stored patterns and code. The issue of 'fairness' to the programmer doesn't arise. He no longer matters as far as the program and its output is concerned. In fact the chess machine system doesn't even know he exists. Now it is just a machine, no feelings, no morals, no ethics, just pre-programmed to 'play' chess and 'win'.
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