Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:58:23 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 05:29:12, Uri Blass wrote:
>On April 30, 2001 at 05:07:46, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On April 30, 2001 at 03:39:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On April 30, 2001 at 03:25:01, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 30, 2001 at 02:55:13, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The same applies for Nimzo, Hiarcs, Gandalf... Did Enrique ask them if they had
>>>>>a SMP version that could compete?
>>>>>
>>>>>I know the answer because Enrique told me in email.
>>>>>
>>>>>HE DID NOT ASK THEM EITHER.
>>>>>
>>>>>What other evidence do you need that the selection process has been arbitrary?
>>>>
>>>>I have an SMP program that has competed publicly and finished 2nd in the last
>>>>open hardware world championship, and they haven't even acknowledged my
>>>>existence as an author of something even vaguely worthy to play in this. So
>>>>you've been treated better than I have. They knew all about me and chose to
>>>>treat me as if I do not exist.
>>>>
>>>>It's water under the bridge though. They've insulted more or less everyone with
>>>>this selection process, it seems clear that they are set on doing it how they
>>>>want to do it, they got the result they wanted, and nothing is going to change.
>>>>
>>>>The biggest insult is to Stefan, who can't get any respect no matter how many
>>>>times he wins the WMCCC and WCCC.
>>>
>>>Stefan got something for winning WMCCC and WCCC.
>>>I believe that he sold more copies of his program thank to winning these
>>>copmpetition.
>>>
>>>I do not see it as a clear thing that Shredder is the program that should be
>>>invited to a match against kramnik because there was no agreement before WCCC
>>>that the winner of the competition is going to be invited to play a match
>>>against kramnik.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Come on, at fisrt the match was presented as WC vs WC. Later it was changed
>>to best computer vs Kramnik and now even this info is also removed from the
>>BGN page.
>>
>>Ed
>
>It is at least good that they remove wrong information from the BGN page.
>
>Uri
It does not matter if they remove that from their pages or not.
How is it going to be perceived by the general audience?
The general audience will think that it is best program against best chess
player. You do not even need to say it, that's what people are going to believe.
People think: "it would not make any sense if the selected program was not the
best in the world, so this program must be the best of all".
That reminds me a study that has been done recently. When they were asked from
which country were coming the Nokia phones, a majority of american people
answered "from Japan". Because "Nokia" sounds like a japanese word to their
hears.
Oops... Maybe you were also believing that Nokia is a japanese brand? Nokia is
from Finland.
In France there is a chewing gum brand named "Hollywood". A majority of french
people believe it comes from the US. But it's a french brand.
Christophe
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