Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 02:39:39 12/21/03
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On December 21, 2003 at 05:31:12, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 21, 2003 at 05:08:48, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>Inbetween all the emotional clap-trap, the argument in your post seems to rest >>to a large degree on the assertion that the GUI was not part of the program, >>which you conveniently define it is not. I believe it clearly was part of the >>program and that therefore the claim of a draw (even though not precisely >>formulated, but obvious) was a 'move' that the operator had no right to >>over-rule. >> >>Whether or not the human can influence the contest, I suggest they should not to >>the extent that they change the result. > >It is impossible to prevent humans to change the result(for example speed of >operators may change the result) but the target should be to make the influence >as little as possible. > >Humans can influence the contest mean by definition that unfortunately they can >sometimes change the result(I am talking only about what happens during the >game). > >Uri I should have said deliberately changes the result, as in deliberately ignore the program's instruction. (I was recognising the point in the post, you repeat, that humans have to move for the program and therefore must influence the outcome to some extent.).
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