Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:30:44 04/16/02
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On April 16, 2002 at 22:39:31, Allen Lake wrote: >On April 16, 2002 at 12:52:53, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>My prediction is based on how well the Special opening book could have been >>prepared. If Jeroen did a serious research on the winning percentage that GM >>Smirin have with a certain opening and a loosing percentage as well, then the >>rest should be fine for Chess Tiger. I also believe the the Deep Junior team >>did a good research on what opening to use against GM Smirin. That at least will >>get Deep Junior and Chess Tiger out of trouble in the first 12 moves. Also the >>CB Opening book should NOT be Used since GM Smirin has access to them. >> > >If it is okay (or even desirable) for the Tiger and Junior teams to use >published games to prepare anti-Smirin opening books for this match, why isn't >it okay for Mr. Smirin to use the Chessbase opening book to prepare anti-program opening lines for himself in this match? It is ok for smirin to use the chessbase opening book to prepare but it is also okay for the programmers to change the opening book. Is it, perhaps, that his _superior_ >knowledge of chess theory might provide him with the ability to find advantages >in subtle positions which cannot be calculated away by a state-of-the-art >computer program running on a modern computer system? If so, how is that an >unfair advantage for Mr. Smirin? After all, he has probably devoted at least as >many man-hours in developing that judgement as the programmers of the engines >have devoted in creating their powerful search and evaluation algorithms. > >If giving a GM access to the opening book of a chess program is detrimental to >the success of that program against the GM, doesn't that say enough about how >far away the programmers are from actually equalling the ability of that GM? > >My two cents worth. If giving a GM access to the opening book of a program is fair then it is also fair to give the humans who play against smirin all the information about the opening preperations of smirin before he play against them. I think that chess is a game that nobody should know the opening preperation of the opponent. You can also ask the following question: If humans need unfair means like getting the opening book and the opening preperation of the opponents(something that they never get against humans), does not this say enough about how far GM's are from actually equalling the ability of computers? Uri
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