Author: Graham Laight
Date: 04:34:15 02/08/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 06:39:35, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >the distance. Such an end in the future no longer fallen both the computer chess >fans and even the chess layman will leave themselves, that slowly become the >celebrate theatre in the Matches "Man vs. to Machine" too transparent and thus >the price of watching no longer worth!! I agree with the above statement. Yesterday's game was the first to be televised live for a very long time. The premature draw agreement will have done nothing to attract new or old chess fans into the sport. Also, after yesterday, don't expect to see the TV cameras again any time soon. At the WMCCC in London in 2000, I remember that if One wanted to finish the game by offering a draw or resigning, one had to call the arbiter. He would then take a good long hard look at the position, and then tell you whether or not you were permitted to end the game in that position. Amir and Deep Junior were competing at this event, so we KNOW that they have experience of playing under these conditions. Clearly, there is an urgent need to introduce the same rule into computer v human games. The alternative is that the game will continue to be mocked by the players, people will stop being interested, and anyone who follows the sport will be thought of as boring old farts by their friends. -g
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