Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:48:49 05/20/02
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>>Let me clarify the argument against that statement: "there is no currently >>existing in FIDE or USCF rules that prevent memorization of long seqauences >>of opening moves." Never has been, never will be. > >I think it is easy to make an argument that permanent memory is written >material. If you store a openingbook on your harddrive it is written material in >my view. Its there to read for anyone with a PC to connetc to the HD. :-) And as >such against the rules! I think it is equally easy to argue that hashtables are nothing more than written notes that the program writes and then consults. Afterall, the fact that it is stored/written into memory should make no difference, otherwise I could simply load the opening book into the RAM. I know that I am not allowed to write down my own analysis during a game to consult while I am playing. I think it is therefore also time to ban hashtables. Adios Fritz! Albert > >So what it boils down to is what kind of material you consider the openingbook >on your PC to be. > > >> >>So the argument is totally moot. As shown by the USCF allowing computers to >>play in rated events for 40 years. FIDE even allowed them for a period of >>time... > >In the "old days" the programs where so weak that we allowed them to "cheat" >with a openingbook. Without it the programs would play to stupid chess. Now I >think it is time for the programs to do without. > >Torstein
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