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Subject: Re: Strength of the engine in chess programs

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 07:34:34 05/21/02

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On May 20, 2002 at 18:14:30, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>Quotation from FIDE rules:
>>>==========================
>>>(a)
>>>During play, the players are forbidden to make use of hand-written, printed or
>>>otherwise recorded matter, or to analyse the game on another chessboard. They
>>>are also forbidden to have recourse to the advice of a third party, whether
>>>solicited or not.
>>>[The only possible exception is that a player in a team competition may be
>>>allowed to ask his captain "Should I accept his offer of a draw?" or "Does the
>>>team need me to play for a win?". The captain or acting-captain must limit his
>>>reply to an immediate "Yes", "No", or "It's up to you", without supplying his
>>>answer after a detailed analysis of the position, and without making his answer
>>>emphatic in any way. This captain, like all his players, is not allowed to
>>>receive opinions, from any source, on the states of play of any games still in
>>>progress] .
>>>(b)
>>
>>
>>
>>OK..  Computers don't do any of that...
>
>Nothing of pre-recorded stuff? Mhmm. Or do you use a different wording?

You want to stick to the rulebook, fine, remove all recorded chessknowledge by
the human. It may be stored in the neurons in the brain and not on paper, but it
says "or otherwise recorded matter", so get rid of it :)

If you remove all pre-recorded knowledge in a program, you remove also the
evaluation terms, piece square tables, all the search/extension/pruning rules
that are based on chessknowledge, in fact even the chess rules must be deleted.
You have no program if you choose to interpret the FIDE rules like that.

-S.



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