Author: Gorgon Haas
Date: 11:15:41 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 10:36:47, Chris Carson wrote: >I am amazed that the Best Human player can not show up for a chess >match and just play his/her best game against the computer. Thats >what I do when I open up the program (or download it) for the >first time. ;) > >The only reason I can imagine is to guarantee a dominating victory. >Not much of a contest if you ask me. > >I would be more interested (as a consumer of sw/hw) in a match with >a top 20 GM vs any program/hw with no unfair preparation. If any of >the commercial programmers read this, have a match like this with the >final cut of the sw just before release, have the match, then release >the program. Hello :) As far as I know, human chess masters prepare for matches against other human players by studying their opponents carefully. Previous tournament records are usually available, providing data to analyse an opponent's play beforehand. Being a part of the public enjoying the race, I see nothing unfair in a human preparing as thoroughly as possible for a match against a chess program and vice versa. On the other hand, keeping a human opponent away from the program until just before the match would seem unfair to me, as the human players data are available to the programmers anyway, allowing them to prepare their program for a specific opponent. Regulatory measures may seem appropriate to balance qualifications between human and computer chess masters, but (again as part of the public) I prefer an unbiased playground, or battlefield ;) Best regards to all members of this interesting forum, Gorgon
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