Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 01:38:22 11/24/97
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On November 23, 1997 at 19:33:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Well, no so quite, Chris. As a writer in Computer Chess Report I can >tell you that things are no so simple like that. I don't say that never >happens, but not always happen. I am sure you are not thinking in CCR >with your harsh words as much you have been interviewed by me there and >you didn't say "no" on behalf of a fight against bloody lyers. So I >presume you felt that you was not going to be targeted by lyes. I have >never been pushed in a way or another for writting in favour or against >any program. Computer Chess Reports is -like CCC- sponsored by Your >Moves&Games, ICD, but not even once I have been told not to write >anything good of a program that is NOT distributed by them or and /or to >say something extremely good of those products they sell. Not me, not >the others guys that, by the way, write there because they like to do >it, not because they are payed. I am not payed, no one is payed. All >this does not means that nobody use the power -little power in this >case- of press to get something, but I am sure that generally speaking >the rule is not do it. I think that the magazine wrote by Eric is also >an honest one, as it is CCR. If there are sins are more in the side of >too much hoopla than to much criticism. But even in this case, more that >a sin is the result of the objetive fact that you rarely meet a bad >product in this field, lately. And when my colleague K.K in CCR usually >find and describe no less than 30 or 40 flaws in new programs, nobody >stop him in order not to perturb potential business. >Lyes can be met everywhere, Chris, even here. Lye comes from interest >and this, CCC, is not Heaven. As as here, Computer Chess Reports is in >the Web so any thing anybody dims a lye or unworthy can be inmediately >refuted or contested. we don't talk from the mountain, we are exposed >and we receive criticism when we are wrong. So, Chris, i ask you not to >involve all of us in the sin of a bunch from G... Not even God did it >and the honest people were so few... Sorry, forgot about the CCR. I don't get sent it, so never read it. Given the quality of the correspondents, I suspect it is totally straight. Likewise PLY, which I don't read either. I think Selective Search is too close to Hiarcs (now) and Genius (in the past). And the less said about CSS the better :) Chris
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