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Subject: Re: Give an alternative for a new CC

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 13:24:22 10/11/02

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On October 11, 2002 at 15:05:26, Matthew Hull wrote:

>Rolf,
>
>In the interest of clarity, if it was up to you, what would be the rules for a
>human versus computer chess match?
>
>Matt

First and basic Law:

Chess programming does always mean being honest about the actual strength of the
program/machine entity. So impostering should be forbidden already out of
self-respect. All tricks which are meant to exercise psychological confusion
should be regarded as insult against computer chess itself.

Consquence:

That means by logic that all the Wch shows and super GM hype "bye-bye" from now
on. There are plente of strong IM and experts who would be glad to play the
machines.

Second Law:

Opening books should never contain lines a program can't "understand" simply
because the key is too deep in the tree. So also such pretension should be
regarded as insult against the moral of CC.

(NB that I'm not being asked for giving my specific ideas for new chess topics
in CC programming. But I think that the ideas of Roay are fantastic. I saw that
Ed already agreed although he's the famous addict of night long autoplayer games
instead of human vs comp test.)


Rolf Tueschen





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