Author: KarinsDad
Date: 13:03:19 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 14:07:26, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > > I see nothing unfair in using a new version for an event a previous version >qualified for. It would be unfair to have exterior human (or computer) help >during the games. Why? If we use your definition, then Kasparov used a Fritz 5 and 5.32 program to improve himself the last few years. Hence, he should be allowed to play advanced chess with Fritz 7 at his side in next years Giants tournament since it is the Kasparov/Fritz team that helped him qualify for this years Giants tournament. It all comes down to where you draw the line. Why should the program have a team and the individual player not have a team? > After all, Fritz qualified for this Frakfurt Masters by winning the Ordix Open >last year, and surely it was an older version without multi-procesing >capabilities. > What is important to me is that the program was developed by the same team. >I.e. for me, the "team" qualified, not the "program/hardware". Yes, but the Fritz "team" did not build the 256 processor system that Fritz 7 may be running on next year. So you are allowing the Fritz "team" to consist of thousands or tens of thousands of people from the electrical company to the hardware manufacturers and it is a different set of thousands of people on the Fritz "team" than the thousands who were needed to produce Fritz 6 on the hardware that it ran on. So, the "team" (especially the part of the team that creates the hardware) will be changing, but that is considered fair. Again, it is a matter of differences between programs and people where they are being considered the same. KarinsDad :) >José.
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