Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 16:20:14 05/21/02
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On May 21, 2002 at 10:34:34, Sune Fischer wrote: >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. You might be caught in black/white perceptions. Why this couldn't be discussed and regulated? Otherwise we end arguing that the progrma and the machine were made by man. Rolf Tueschen
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