Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 15:47:52 03/18/99
I had to abstain from this question because I do not think in all cases players should get access to programs. Like the Kasparov - Deep Blue match, he could have been given examples of it previous games played but should not be able to have a practice against before hand or have access. This is different with programs such as Fritz and Hiarcs and Rebel, etc, which are available at all good stores and mean anyone can play with them if they are to play these programs beforehand. So this question is not defined as to if you were asking about all programs, even ones played on super computers, or just normal software, which I do not think is the case because they would be able to get their hands on it anyway, and thus the question would cancel itself. So in answer to all programs, I would go from Abstain to no. In a few little tournaments I have played I never got the chance to have a practice against people I was then going to play against, I saw some of their games, but I have no right to ask them for access to themselves because I want to find out how they play. And do these poll questions have any thought put into them, the one against The Human Vs Hiarcs7 post was only posted about a day ago, I think much more questions could be asked, you could even ask again some relevant previous questions, about which program do you think will be the strongest. I am sure with all the new versions of programs out and with some time for people to look and play over them that opinions might have changed. I think with all that goes on with computer chess that many more questions could be asked, the polls used to be interesting with quite a few questions, but now it is as about as dead as the computer chess report page, I never go there anymore, cause nothing is ever in there.
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