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Subject: Re: Maybe all programs should now have a "for humans" and a "for computers"

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 09:51:58 11/01/01

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Dear Stuart,

When playing Junior or ChessTiger just give yourself rook odds.  Take away at
least a rook and you should have a chance of beating the machine without
resorting to error generation.  You will have to think hard to beat the machine
but it will not be a "give-me".


Soon the machines will be putting us in virtual reality playing against a sexy
human female with various levels of play.  In the background sweet violin music
from YoYo Ma will lift our spirits.  The smells of cinnamon and apple will make
us hungry.  Ahh, the good life.


Enjoy,

TIM

On November 01, 2001 at 11:14:06, stuart taylor wrote:

>Setting.
>Maybe the wording should be something like this.
>"Anti-human" makes it look like it's designed simply to make life hard, i.e.
>tedious and taxing for humans, and therefore to be used by massochists.
>But in fact it should be more humane really, as it is made to bring out the best
>from the human, as well as, at the same time to give him the best "human"
>challenge.
>Human vs. "for computers" should result in the anti-computer experts getting
>very succesful results compared to their ELO, and the non anti-computer experts
>getting a relatively low success rate.(until tey get the hang of it, and maybe
>to even take tranquilizers before the game!)
>
>I mean that perhaps, it should become official that when a human plays a
>program, you are talking about the "for humans" mode.
>S.Taylor



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