Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:17:02 06/20/03
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On June 20, 2003 at 10:28:18, steven blincoe wrote: >> >>> >>>You do not understand. >>> >>>People do not buy chess engines to play against them. >>>They have other reasons(for example watching the engines play against other >>>engines). >>> >>>Uri >> >> >> Reasons can differ I think. I buy chess engines mainly to play against them. >> And use for analyses. One of my friends uses the engines for opening training - >> i.e. he prepares an opening and plays 10 30 min games in this particular >> opening. Then analyses the games of course. >> >> Sune > >playing against the computer seems to me to be the only interesting or valid >reason to constantly upgrade > >i am not sure exactly the importance or even the interest in seeing one PC >program play another? >i am also not certain what we even learn from this? >for me the importance of computer chess only has relevance as it relates to how >it translates to play against humans > >i think the chess software companies would go out of business with my opinions >whereas now they thrive because people will constantly upgrade just to see one >program with version 8.432 play against another program with version 12.6654 > >let us remember, Computer chess was orinially intended as an AI experiment to >perhaps learn something about human intelligence >the forefathers of computer chess(Shannon,Turing,Michie,etc)i think would be >very amused at this rushing out to buy one program after the next to play them >against each other > >how one program plays against another has no relevance or interest to me > >how they play against humans however is very interesting to me > >Steve There are enough buyers who are interested in seeing comp-comp games. There are also other reasons: correspondence players may use the best software to beat their opponents when bith sides are allowed to use programs. Uri
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