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Subject: Re: Poll question: should computers play for the world championship?

Author: Mark Young

Date: 16:05:10 07/26/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 13:49:31, Mark Schreiber wrote:

>I have a question that I have not seen in the opinion poll. Now that the Fide
>world champion Karpov has drawn 1 game with Shredder at slow time controls,
>should computers be allowed to play in the qualifying matches for the world
>championship? Even if a computer did not become world champion, It would be
>interesting to see how far a computer would go.

No, The world championship title is for blunt skulls only. I am all in favor of
few (the strongest) computer playing humans in a few tournament or playing the
World champion in and exhibition. But I don't want to see a mostly computer
World championship cycle.



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