Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:06:46 04/22/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 13:51:34, Duncan Stanley wrote: >I guess BGN can do whatever they want in regard to selecting an opponent for >Kramnik. Whatever they do, and however they do it, is not going to be any big >deal come the match. Whether invitation, one selected opponent, an open event >whatever, whatever, whatever - do you really believe Joe Public is going to be >bothered about how the computer opponent was selected? > >So there is whingeing on computer chess forums, with claim and counter-claim >about the terrible unfairness to other programs. Does the program care about >fairness to machines? I guess the chess public would moan and groan about >unfairness to its favourite chess players, but to chess playing machines? Big >deal and so what. > >So one program made it and another didn't. Is there any difference between the >programs? Any real difference? > >The deal will be: can a machine beat a human. Not how the machine was selected. >Just so long as the chooser didn't select a Fidelity Chess Challenger 1982 >version, all will be just fine. > >Will the public be horrified that the 'evil' Chessbase got its program in? Is >the public interested in the relative evilness of the competing computer chess >commercial entities? I think not. It will probably expect the competing program >to be owned by some nerd who never sees the light of day and lives on take-away >pizza and diet-coke. > >Which program will be utterly unimportant. Only here are you guys worried about >it. > >BGN should and probably will just go ahead and ignore you. I don't care if they ignore me. I have my opinions and I've expressed them. If they ignore me it's not like I'm going to have a giant cow about it for the rest of my life. bruce
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