Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:52:55 10/16/01
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On October 16, 2001 at 19:01:07, Kevin Stafford wrote: >>I think that it is better if Fide decide that everybody can use humans or >>computers to help her(him). >> >>The games are going to be better in this case and I expect more players to play >>in that case. >> >>Uri > >This wouldn't really make any sense. If you allowed this for only the internet >rounds you would get a bunch of kids with fast hands attempting to play real >chess in the finals and losing horribly. If you allowed this format for the >entire event the fide championship would become an advanced chess tourney, >making it even more of a joke than it is now. Also, the playing field will never >be even, because you can't enforce hardware restrictions when people are playing >from their homes, making it a contest of who has the greatest computer resources >at their disposal, not chess skills. Besides, even if you can make the argument >now that a human adds to the computers strength, in 5 or 10 years this might not >be true, and then it will just be a contest between the machines. > >-Kevin I do not care about it. I consider the fide tournaments as a joke in the last years and I think that if it is known that it is going to be a joke then it is better at least to have better games. The champion is not supposed to be the best player and I do not expect the results of the Fide championship to tell me something about the question who is the best player in the world. Uri
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