Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 12:23:15 10/03/99
There is no doubt in my mind that the best commercial programs are GM strength, but as Seven of Nine often says in Star Trek Voyager, "That is irrelavent". In order for a chess program to become a GM, it must play in norm qualification tournaments against Human GM's. That won't happen unless Fide suddenly declars that the programs can be invited to these events, and challenge for these title & norms like any human. I don't think this would be fair to the Human professional chess player's who have to eat and sleep, and often base their tournament chances against other Human player's that they have studied to play, long & hard. On the other hand, If a large company like Mircrosoft or Intel (or you name it), was sponsoring the event from the beginning, and inviting a group of chess programs and humans to fight for these norms and titles, then we could soon have plenty of computer Fide Master's, IM's & GM's. In a way, the AEGON tournament was the last such event of this type, but with out the Fide sanctioned status. So of course the question arises - How imported is Fide to us for the credence we give our human players & chess programs? Larry - the chess software addict!
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