Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:44:04 10/16/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 05:07:44, Alastair Scott wrote: >On October 16, 2002 at 01:29:18, ludicrous wrote: > >>Would FIDE someday allow chess programs to regularly join the human chess >>circuit? Would it allow programs to play regularly in tournaments with humans? >>What is FIDE's standing on this? > >I suspect _never_ because it would be a PR disaster waiting to happen. Quite >apart from the fact that not everyone likes computers*, the conspiracy theories >here would be a mere taster of the insults and recriminations that would fly >around ... it's fortunate this forum is closed as anyone unsympathetic to chess >would read it and think 'what a bunch of crackpots'. I think that it is better to do a sweningen tournament of the top humans against the top programs to test the level of programs when the prize of the winners is going to be a similiar match to the match kasparov-Junior when players also get money that is proportional to their points. I think that in that case people are going to be less suspecious about things. People can suspect that one player is a cheater but they will not believe that many of the top players are cheaters so if programs can get surprising good results in these conditions people are going to say nothing. The difference relative to previous events is that the humans should be motivated to win like smirin was in his games against computers and the games should be 120/40+60/20 time control. In previous tournaments the result is not a surprise because the humans were not prepared to play anti computer and had no big motivation of something like 1000$ for win and 500$ for draw against the computer. In the kramnik case it is a surprise because I expect even IM's to have good chances to beat Fritz in similiar conditions and I expect kramnik to take no risks when he is leading 3-2 because 3-3 is a dangerous situation and suddenly the win does not seem sure because one mistake is enough for Kramnik not to win the match. Uri
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