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Subject: Re: That busts me! I can't tollerate the differences anymore RE DJ vs DF.

Author: Alois Ganter

Date: 23:10:40 04/30/01

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>This is why we don't autoplay _important_ matches.

Doesn't sound encouraging for AI development: Recommending human interference.

A strong chess player can point out obvious dangers to a chess program during
the game. E.g. by discreetly adjusting the rest position of his mouse arrow
during moves. Say the program grabbed a pawn and now desperately needs to
consolidate instead of going for more material. Any 1800 player can judge that
better than nowadays top programs.

Manual operation opens a pandora box of disturbing unfairplay which the other
program cannot defend against. It should e.g. be strictly forbidden to operate
chess software with a mouse during important matches.

On the other hand every program can trivially defend against abusing input from
an autoplayer interface. No human interference, no cheating.



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