Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:40:00 02/24/00
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On February 24, 2000 at 04:16:14, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote:
>thank to a link highlighted by Heiner Marxen in another thread, I found an
>interesting paper by althofer. Reading it i was impressed by this:
>
>... snip
>Originally I had intended to play some match with List-3-Hirn against a Top-10
>GM in 1998 (and another match against the human World Champion in 1999 or 2000
>...), but the masters are no longer interested. One of them was so honest to
>tell me that money was not the key point for his decision to reject my match
>offer, but that he felt that the use of chess computers changed the character of
>the game in a way he did not like. After this reaction I decided to stop my
>experiments.
>...
It would be interesting to know what was meant by the changing of the character
of chess. I can guess that it was meant as the character of competitive chess
but it would have been interesting to hear more from the aforementioned master.
Albert Silver
>this extract exprime very well the feeling between GM and comps
>
>are the GMs boycotting computer science? (just kidding ;-)
>
>the link is
>http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/www/fakultaet/iam/personen/CA-Chessd.html
>
>thanks Heiner
>
>gianluigi
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