Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:57:57 10/19/00
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On October 19, 2000 at 12:57:43, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On October 19, 2000 at 12:42:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Steven: >> >>I have read from this story before, but never you have told how your lawyers >>convinced the jury. I wonder what a heck knows average jury people about >>ratings, Mhz speed and in fact about chess in general. And nevertheles these >>were esential data. How they did? >>Fernando > >We called Larry Kaufman as a witness, and Larry's job was to >explain to the jury what ratings were and how MHz affected ratings. >Larry has always been pretty good at using plain English to explain >complicated issues. Even my parents could understand what he was >saying. Fidelity had no idea that we knew that the machines at the >tournament were running at 8 MHz. >Steve (ICD/our Move Chess & Games) That wasn't the _only_ game they played, either. There were others. From machines they would let _nobody_ touch, to under-the-table agreements on the outcomes of games before they were even played. The "glory days" of microcomputer chess programs/machines. :)
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