Author: Albert Silver
Date: 19:14:20 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 18:23:58, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>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?)
Yes. It writes down all of its analysis and then consults it. Just imagine if
you could write down YOUR calculations while you were playing so that you didn't
have to calculate certain lines again. Of course you can't as it is against the
rules. Smacks of cheating to me.
Albert
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