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Subject: Re: Keep Computers away from Human tourneys

Author: James Robertson

Date: 21:54:47 01/15/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 17:54:17, Phil Richard wrote:

>I would really like the thoughts from people regarding
>computers being allowed in human tournaments...
>We have reached a point where very few people are able
>to compete (esp. Blitz) against a machine in normal conditions.
>
>This is like allowing motorbikes to compete in the Olympics against
>humans runners!!
>
>Maybe more players should take a stand like Kasparov
>regarding the "Frankfurt Giants".
>
>Machine V Machine events attract a lot of interest, but please
>let's keep them separate..

I don't like human vs. computer blitz events. I have no problem with man -
machine events at tournament time controls, since computer obviously have a way
to go to compete with even the top 100 human players....

James



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