Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:20:47 06/20/03
Computer Chess came out of the science "computer sciences". Later scientists and becoming scientists came together and made a little tournament with their machines. They found rules that were enough for them - because they were basically scientists, so never they would have cheated each other. They had a so called gentleman's agreement about possible cheats. Now let's stop the historical summary for a moment of thought. As I wrote computer chess has no inborn rules against cheating. More, it is technically impossible to prevent cheatings. As long as scientists are participating that is no big problem, but what happens if people participate who simply have no idea what science is? We get a real problem. All kind of private routines are presented with their private results although that can't be accepted as scientific procedures. The answer is, privately we can do what we want, science is for labs. This is a gross misunderstanding. Simply because back through the bathroom window these same people claim that their results have validity. But that exactly implies science because without certain exact procedures you can't get validity of your data. So that is leading you into a deadly circle. Scientists get their income from scientific institutions. Look at Bob who gives his Crafty for free but who gets enough money as Professor. Now we have certain people without such an income who therefore use business technology. Now where is the scientific control here? As you know software in general is a fine medium. Errors are called bugs and sold as if - they had no bugs, but if they have, the users give precious feedback for the business companies. In short there is no scientific control whatsoever. Brilliant for the business companies. They are mainly amateurs (and Christians in the majority) who do a charity job for the million users. The products (programs) are tested by - again - amateur testers. So all without validity. All without a way to complain if something goes wrong. Can you follow me what I mean if I say that non-scientists, amateurs and charity people sell something that we should NEVER expect scientific reliability? Not to speak of validity. Excuse the many scientific terms. Can you also follow me that if such amateurs want to make money, NB that Kasparov or Amir Ban got thousands of dollars for their show event meant as PR action for the ChessBase program Junior, that then they must create a bit of hot air, they must "make a little cheat" about the content of the box they are selling? Of course they must say that Junior is GM!! Since Kasparov said it. Of course they must shout, that the original engine that played KASPAROV IS IN THE BOX!! If they didn't they were bad amateurs or - - well, just scientists. But since they aren't all is kosher. Look, when I bought Fritz 8 I suffered of the same mental attack all the Junior 8 customers suffered from, I believed that I could finally use the new feature with the 3D pieces. I did NEVER think about my old PC who simply had not the modern graphics which were necessary to be able to profit from the new features! The same with Junior 8. Against Kasparov the prog ran on extremely expensive hardware. Obviously nobody around has such a machine. So by force nobody can use the exact program that played Kasparov. But that was exactly what the PR of ChessBase told us. But for real computer freaks - is that a surprise?? Is that a cheat?? Of course NOT. Since we are totally out of science. Look if I sold you a rocket to the moon and you bought it for your dreams about farming on the moon and you run short of gasoline, don't call me if you are frustrated. Without fuel no rocket did ever fly to the moon. Know what I mean? With the "GM Junior 8" we touch the sphere of day dreaming! Know what I mean? there is no room for scientific reflections. It is all a question of "as if". Cheating is NOT cheating in the dream world of computer chess. So, we shoulkd let ChessBase off the hook. They are only "human" (Stefan Giering). ;) Rolf Tueschen P.S. Please all kind of popular software to my email address at rolftueschen@aol.com Thank you! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt - I dream on ---
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