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Subject: Re: Human Vs Computer matches no longer interesting.

Author: Yen Art Tham

Date: 11:15:23 03/22/03

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On March 22, 2003 at 12:32:40, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>To keep such matches interesting there first some new rules should be
>established to raise nearly "equal-chance" matches:
>
>a) the amount of persistant storage (including program code and librarys) should
>be limited to about 1 MB (according to human brain, which also is not to be
>expanded permanently).
>
>b) on the other side, computer programs should be informed on the identity of
>their opponent, at least at the beginning of each game.
>
>Regards, Reinhard

Your "rules" would discourage development in computer chess by cripling
chess programs. A much better way would be to give time handicaps,
eg. 60 minutes for the computer against tournament time for the GM.





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