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Subject: Re: Give an alternative for a new CC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:41:31 10/11/02

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On October 11, 2002 at 16:24:22, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>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.

This means humans can't play real chess either.  How many GMs today play stuff
that they didn't/couldn't find on their own???  It happens all the time.  Why is
this
an issue for computers, when humans do it every day???



>
>(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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