On Feb 19, 10:57 am, "webfilelib" wrote:

I have a question about fairness:

If computer programs are allowed to have
opening's books (i.e. human-aided analysis)
when playing against humans...

then why can't humans have endgame analysis
from a hand-held calculator
when playing against computers?

Because, only the computers are allowed
to cheat at chess.

When humans do this sort of thing, they
are summarily whipped, keel-hulled, or at
the very least ostracized, excommunicated,
and labeled left-wing radical lunatic-fringers.

You may recall a game or two in which
humans pitted Bobby Fischer against the
dreadful Greenblatt program; so horrible was
the slaughter that from that time forward, it
was decided to just allow computers to
cheat at will! This seemed only fair at the
time... .


-- fairness bot