Author: stuart taylor
Date: 01:55:54 10/17/01
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On October 16, 2001 at 19:52:55, Uri Blass wrote: >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 It's a nice, one-year honour. Quite a big honour which is also earned and goes to a very worthy individual (in chess). He is only supposed to be aware that he is not the absolute world champion. But doesn't he at least have a ticket to a match with the absolute world champion? S.Taylor (of course there's no justification to mess it up with computers!)
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