Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 03:34:43 06/23/01
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On June 22, 2001 at 14:41:23, Tapio Huuhka wrote: >That's still an abstraction. The robot doesn't use "one hand" to perform moves, >as stipulated by the FIDE rules. It uses just an artificial abstraction of a >hand. A similar abstraction is the opening library used by this robot (in any >form whatever) and it compares well with ECO volumes, for instance. Or does the >creation of computer opening books differ much in principle from the creation of >ECO? If people want to say that computers cheat or whatever, who cares. There's no way around this, and that's the intent of people who say this. Fine, computers cheat, because they can't grab a piece with their fingers, compose a sonnet, be emotionally touched by a baby's smile, or go potty. Stipulated. I don't care. I think blind people cheat, too. Blind people shouldn't be allowed to play chess unless they move the pieces themselves, and the touch move rule still applies. And since they can't see the board, and they can't touch the pieces, they have to figure out where their opponent moved by *sound* and *smell*. If they can't do this, tough luck, because lord knows that the game of chess is completely destroyed unless you reach out and touch the piece with your own fingers. By the way, there are FIDE rules for blind people, and the computers play by them. A blind person can have a person there who helps them move pieces, and tells them where things have been moved. bruce
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