Author: Don Dailey
Date: 12:48:35 06/26/98
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On June 26, 1998 at 14:42:53, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On June 26, 1998 at 12:16:09, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On June 26, 1998 at 05:03:16, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >>>What about organizing an Internet-based event that everybody can >>>participate in from his own "home desk"? >> >>I trust you to operate your program correctly, but what about the insane >>computer-chess people? > >There are two kinds of computer chess tournaments, those where entries are >accepted from the people who produce the program, and those where anybody can >buy a copy of the program and participate. > >Some people don't draw a distinction between these sorts of tournaments, but I >do. > >It is an odd situation. You can't do this sort of thing, for instance, with a >baseball team. It's either the team playing or it isn't, you can't have a copy >of a team. > >In car racing, you can go buy your Chevy or your Toyota or whatever, and you can >race it, but the "competitive ego" of the entry, if I may coin a term, very >apparently exists within the driver and the pit crew, not the car. If the >driver screws up, or even if the car screws up, this is considered to be the >responsibility of the driver or the pit crew, not the car maker. > >In computer chess, when someone buys a program and operates it at a tournament, >the competitve ego is seen to exist within the program, not the operator. > >What this means is that if the operator screws up, or cheats, or messes with the >opening book, or even if the operator does something "sportsmanlike" and gives >away a half point because he won't call the opponent's flag, this reflects upon >the program, not the operator. > >We had a tournament on chess.net, and one of the programs was about to lose on >time, so the operator took over for the program, and finished the game. I am >sure that you can find this game, with the player recorded as the program, and >not the program/operator pair, in PGN collections on the net. So this game is >mis-attributed. I don't think this is likely to happen much in "human" chess, >it seems to be an oddity of "computer" chess. > >I think this is a nasty situation, and as a consequence I am very reluctant to >participate in such tournaments. > >bruce IF I did have a tournament, only a programming team could enter their own programs. They could send a representative however or ask for a local operator if they could not come themselves. Only Bob could enter Crafty. I don't want a tournament where every other entry is Crafty based or a variation of gnuchess. - Don
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