Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 12:22:42 10/19/00
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On October 19, 2000 at 14:57:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. :) A rhetorical question... Isn't it ironic that they chose Fidelity for their name? Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games)
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