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Subject: Re: Proposal for a new CC

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 17:31:46 10/14/02

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On October 14, 2002 at 20:11:58, martin fierz wrote:

>On October 14, 2002 at 19:25:46, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>On October 11, 2002 at 23:26:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>You keep bringing this up, so here's a challenge:
>>>
>>>Formulate a rule (or rules) governing opening book knowledge.  The rule has to
>>>be fair
>>>to both players (computer and human) and the rule _must_ be enforcable or it
>>>will be
>>>useless.
>>>
>>>What would you like to see and why?
>>>\
>>
>>First of all I know that I can't formulate such rules. I see you already in the
>>starting blocks to prove the impossibility. Just the same debate we had in the
>>topic about the prevention of cheating.
>>
>>Let me make a little proposal. Why we together couldn't find a solution? This is
>>not a court room. Why do you want to work against solutions?
>>
>>Another point: why is it so difficult to understand the strength of a concept
>>that says, let's find a solution for a honest CC. Without all the fishy tricks.
>>A ouple of hours ago I read a quote from Feng Hsu who said naively that chess
>>should well be about some secrecy on both sides...
>
>there is nothing wrong with this. his quote was IIRC that a computer-human match
>should be like a human-human match, with some "secrets for both sides". what he
>means is that in a normal human-human match, the opponents prepare for the match
>in secret, then show up and try to surprise their opponent. like kramnik playing
>the berlin defence against kasparov in their match.
>that is what he meant, and that is perfectly ok.
>
>aloha
>  martin

But that is not ok if we are talking about little Fritz vs Kramnik or DB2&team
against Kasparov. NB that the conditions enforced by Kramnik were a consequence
out of the events in the Kasparov event.

Rolf Tueschen


>
>>
>>But I disagree. I hope you can follow when I say that you won't beat the
>>creativity of human players with all your machines. Yes? So why not accept that
>>you are not there to invent sophisticated tricks to beat human players with your
>>machines but that you should your work as scientists. I'm talking to you as well
>>as Hsu!
>>
>>Somehow it seems to me that you had a perverted understanding of science.
>>
>>You should develop machines that are sophisticated at chess, but not
>>sophisticated tricks to psych out human opponents! Tell me what you would reply.
>>
>>I think we must make a real ethical revolution in CC to stop that nonsense about
>>the dream that suddenly 1800 or weaker operators or programmers (I'm not talking
>>about you in person) could bet super GM just with the support of machines. That
>>is not the concept of CC I would prefer. Because then we are right back in the
>>middle of new cheats! I think Hsu made an beautiful unconscious confession. He
>>likes the secrecy and the tricks...
>>
>>But as we could see in Bahrain, the whole hyperbole is unbelievable. Because
>>Fritz can't play such positions yet Kramnik presented in games 1 to 4. And
>>probably DB2 wouldn't have done better.
>>
>>Let me make this very clear. Say, we had a really strong chess playing machine
>>in 20 years - - _then_ that monster would hopefully have a few tricks on its own
>>to play a match against the human Wch. Know what I mean? But today I do not want
>>to see one Hsu or one Friedel play such tricky games. That's ridiculous in my
>>eyes. So I hope I could make clear what I want. I do also dream of a fantastic
>>computer playing fantastic chess. But I detest tricky operators using some
>>tricks to psych out the GM. That might be real fun for them personally, but this
>>is not what I expected from scientists.
>>
>>Could we agree so far and find new solutions for definitions how machines should
>>be supported along the FIDE rules? Or is it impossible to talk with you because
>>you just prefer to fight the old stuff again when you were a young student and
>>had the impression that you had to find certain rules made on the CC level
>>alone. If you want to cooperate then you should think about the FIDE rules. And
>>then it's not really a help if you or other people try to define me as the
>>representative of some evil force who would like to harm CC...
>>
>>Rolf Tueschen



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