Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 16:42:39 09/03/01
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Uri, I think you miss the point every time they ask you this question. Basically the question is "do you think it's fun to generate moves with a computer instead of yourself?" and you answer "Computer moves are better than most human moves. You should use a computer to find the best moves." But it's no answer to the question. Obviously you don't think it's fun to play chess with just your own brains, so you enter a competition in which computers - sometime aided by a human - play chess with each other. You should say "I think it's fun to play chess in this way, and as it's allowed, I enter the competition in this way." It's a perfectly reasonable answer. And other people -like me- could answer "Well, I think it's boring to be like an automaton. I'd rather find a weaker move myself than the strongest move by my PC program." Neither is right or wrong. We just have a different approach to chess. I think there's a point in catering both "sides". Maybe you do like an accidental human vs. human game. But not in correspondence chess. Good. If it's allowed (and it *is* in your competition) there's nothing wrong with that. J.
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