Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:19:13 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 01:30:44, Uri Blass wrote: >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 No. Human GM players prepart specific lines for their GM opponents _all_ _the_ _time_. Traps. Swindles. theoretical novelties. Etc...
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