Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 03:45:39 01/03/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 20:29:11, Ed Schröder wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 12:42:21, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 02, 2002 at 07:58:26, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >>[snip] >>>It would be nice if also Tiger, Rebel and Nimzo (and some other programs) join, >>>I keep my fingers crossed. >> >>I would be very surprised if they do join, and I admire Hiarcs courage for >>joining. If Hiarcs can win on a single CPU machine, it will be amazing. >> >>Look at the commercial entrants of Deep Fritz and Deep Junior -- any single CPU >>professional program will have a 50% speed disadvantage. Chances are good they >>will end up looking foolish if they join. That is why they stay away: >>FEAR > > >You are right, it *is* fear as you say. Not the fear to lose but the fear of >being a candidate to accusations of cheating and accusations have been happened >in CCT1. Sorry but this my main obstacle. > >Furthermore I don't want to put myself into the temptation to cheat, it is so >easy to force a move, take back a move, change the level to your needs. It is >crazy to think such things will not happen, that is not real. Whole sports are >posioned with forbidden drugs to perform better, why should 40-50 chess >programmers be any diferent? > >In correspondence chess the official rule is not to involve chess programs and >what has happened? > Which official rule? ICCF allows computer help. José. >The rules suck, period. > >Last, I have no time. Loek van Wely is on the menu and Gandalf 5 is going to >play 4 correspondence games against 4 x IM's. I need all my time for those 2 new >events. > >Ed
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