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

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 11:31:12 03/22/03

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On March 22, 2003 at 14:15:23, Yen Art Tham wrote:

>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.

I am not a fan of handicaping the comps, I am more interested in ELO based on
tournament time controls.

However, you have a good idea and so does URI.  I might also suggest just
turning off thinking on opponents time.



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