Author: Harald Faber
Date: 07:37:49 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 10:16:17, KarinsDad wrote: >>It leaves the question: What is Mr. Allwermann's intention? >> >>1) to win a strong tournament >>2) to win prize money >>3) to test how strong a certain program is >> >>1) would be cheating and not correct >>2) would be cheating and not correct >>3) would be a nice idea. But why hide? Because in Germany you have to search >>tourneys where programs are allowed to participate. And you get the advantage >>that your opponent does not know which program he is playing and so your opp >>can't prepare or can't take out some winning lines he played before against >>Fritz or so. And now he still hides because I bet he will either a) play other >>tourneys in that kind and won't risk not to be allowed to play or b) keep the >>myth... (nothing new). > >#3 is interesting, but still cheating. It prevented other players in the >tournament from winning (virtually all tournaments with GMs in them have prize >money), and it upped his rating, not the rating of the computer. Of course. It would only be OK if the player is "außer Konkurrenz" (don't know how to translate it, out of competition doesn't sound correct, it is playing the tourney but without beeing rated and without getting prize money). >Also, you do bring up an interesting idea. Only a few high rated players have >their games posted where they can be looked up in a database. However, even if I guess there are some more... >you do not have a database of computer games, you may have a copy of the program >itself, and hence have a better (but still limited) chance of preparing against >it (of course this is in a tournament where you do know which program you are >playing). That is the point. And that is the point which would bring me to editing the program's opening book if I was allowed to compete in a tourney with a certain program (when I have to say which program I'll use).
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