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Subject: Re: Marcus Kastner versus Millennium (again)

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:16:12 12/07/00

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On December 06, 2000 at 18:45:13, Michael Cummings wrote:

>On December 06, 2000 at 11:39:07, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On December 06, 2000 at 08:10:00, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>Ed, you are too well known here and elsewhere to be damaged by any contorsion of
>>>the ant kind of fight between Millenium and Marcus. Even if it is truth that you
>>>accepted to play some line because Marcus adviced to do so, I do not see in that
>>>eventual fact nothing wrong or nasty, nothing that any player or computer chess
>>>programmer cannot do or should not do. To prepare for a fight is part of the
>>>fight IMHO. Why you should play an opennig knowing in advance it is hurting?
>>>Else: Do not let you be absorbed by these preposterous fights and storms in a
>>>glass of water. To me is incredible that somebody, company or real person, sue
>>>someone else for this. Let sueing activity for real important things. It is a
>>>petty, mediocre thing to do, a waste of time and money, a pain in the ass, a
>>>real shit. Do not do it.
>>>With afection
>>>Fernando
>>
>>Thanks for your wise comments Fernando. One thing to add, this whole
>>episode might look silly and maybe I better should have shut up but then
>>being a journalist yourself you as know how it goes. That is, something is
>>going on -> news -> write about it. That's the journalist job, write news.
>>
>>I just want to avoid this whole thing being wrongly spelled out in all kind
>>of magazines later because it *will* show up. Then better give the right
>>information now it still can.
>>
>>Ed
>
>Write a letter on your web page saying what you want to about the situation and
>leave it at that. Reading Further into this, its a fight that should be between
>other parties and you have been caught in the middle just a bit.
>
>I think you should just state your position on your web site and leave it at
>that. Cause if it goes any further its a matter of choosing sides, which allot
>of people here would not really want to do, since I think we all like the guys
>involved.

Yes you are right.

Ed




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