Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:23:58 06/03/02
When I use a computer chess program to help me analyze and get at the truth about a position, I want the program to have every possible advantage, including a huge opening book, EGTBs, a large database of games, whatever will help it analyze better. But when a computer plays a match against a human, should the expectations be different? Should then additional matters of "fair play" come into consideration? Clearly this is a very divisive issue. The purpose of this post was simply to point out that one MIGHT draw a distinction between what's fair/good to have when you're using the computer as a TOOL and what's fair/good to have when the computer is playing against somebody in a GAME. (A corollary question: We all know humans can cheat -- for example by consulting an opening book during a game. Is there anything a computer could do that should be considered cheating?)
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