Author: rich
Date: 06:49:17 08/25/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 15:37:51, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On August 24, 1999 at 13:51:00, rich wrote: > >>Chessplayers hate losing and love winning! >>Do you think Mikhail Tal would have sat there at move 39 with 5 mins left >>only to lose on time? Why do you think Tal made speculative sacrifices all the >>time? The answer is he wanted to win.He didn't wan't to play dull draws . >>But in order to win a game the time-controls must be respected. >>Thus I think it is safe to say that Mikhail Tal would have played a move and >>at least not lost on time. >>CHESSLAW: IF you overstep the time limit you LOSE the game. >>If CST2 doesn't follow this law then it is not playing chess, it is playing >>something else... > >Nonsense. if all chessplayers who overstep time limit >do NOT play chess but something else, i would know many many NON-chess players. >Accept this: losing on time is the sense of the clocks. >it is part of the game to overstep time. a program that does NOT >overstep time is like a human beeing never going to the toilette. >Although in movies often they don't go to the toilette, you have to accept >that this is NOT normal. >Humans overstep time. >Cstal too. >so - anything is ok. I agree.Humans overstep time limits frequently, but when they do; they know they have lost the game.Chessprogs should also know this and admit the loss, if/when they lose on time. I think it is time you told us wether Cstal is programmed to play like a human, or to play like Mikhail Tal.Because these are two different things. I repeat: Winning was everything for Mikhail Tal.He would NEVER NEVER have sat there, like an idiot, at move 39 with 5 mins to make the first time control, without moving. A human (club player, intermediate player) might have lost on time in this case.But not a grandmaster, and surely not Mikhail Tal.
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