Author: Sven Reichard
Date: 02:35:54 11/26/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 05:58:18, Frank Phillips wrote: >The machine should also have to make its own way to the venue. > >I believe the top human players have teams of advisors preparing openings etc. >Why not start the game from a given position (out of theory) and each side plays >black and then white. This would negate Kasparov opening knowledge, which often >nets him many points. We might even get some interesting games. > >'Your' proposals seems to be about making it easier for humans to win (or at >least not lose). > >Why stop at openings? The question is what purpose Man-Machine matches have. IMHO they can be used to decide who plays better, i.e., more effectively. If this is the case, they should be fair, and thus give the same conditions to both opponents. A human player certainly analyzes the opponents games prior to the match. Thus the machine should have access to the human's games and be allowed to modify its book and evaluation function accordingly. A human player has coaches and advisors who help him/her during preparation. Thus human intervention should be allowed to the program as well. A human player analyzes games that occurred during the match, again with the help of coaches, and modifies his strategy accordingly. Thus, modification of the book, evaluation function, or program code should be allowed during the match. Coaches can't intervene during a game. Thus, the program is on its own from the first to the last move. (This doesn't exclude the use of opening books and table bases, which can be considered part of the program, in particular if they have been compiled by the program itself.) A human player is stuck with his hardware, so the machine's hardware shouldn't be changed. A program running on different hardware should be considered a different player (maybe this is a bit extreme). If the matches are held for other reasons (e.g., to decide whether the machines "think" or are "intelligent"), different conditions apply. BTW, if we exclude opening knowledge by starting from weird positions, we will play a game different from Chess. Just my two bits Sven.
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