Author: Curtis Williams
Date: 08:13:19 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 08:20:31, K. Burcham wrote: > > >my dear mr williams, > > i would like to challenge you to a ten game match at ICC. First of all, I would like to say that Mr. Burcham, who are you and what's your motivation behind this post? Obviously you are continuing an inflammed attack of my right to post chess related posts to this forum. So before I even entertain the specifics of your hype filled challenge. I must say that I can ponder several reasons why you raise your challenge and what gains you are seeking and believe me sir your efforts of deception are not going unchecked. > dont ask me about my hardware, dont ask me what software i will use. > > anything goes, is what you said. which is fine with me. > > you said you had the strongest system at ICC, so to really test this, > > i would like to play 45/10, or 30/30, or 60/15. Your out of context, not factual, and too vague concerning my previous comments. Anything goes?? Let's stick to the facts. I was very particular in my comments as to what program I'm using, hardware...etc. I specifically claimed that I had the fastest SINGLE processor in ICC. That's a fact sir based on displayed finger notes of all computer accounts. Although I would put my money on Tiger and a 1.6g(T-bird) against a SMP setup running Fritz, ...or whatever... any day:). > > ten games at our convenience. > > $500 if you mate me 6 out of ten games. (easy money for you) > > $500 to me if you dont mate me 6 out of ten games. > > any other combination of wins, loses, or draws i get your $500. Mr Burcham, I lost all respect for your post and to you as a serious chess enthusiast when I read these isane ,absolutely unreasonable, conditions for a formal ten game match. The idea is unique and entertaining but you need to inject a little common sense with thinking next time. > we can each send our $500 to bruce moreland to hold until a winner is > decided. if you want to, we both can agree to get bruce to send the > money to a charity of the winners choice. this will be fine with me. So there we have it!!! The motivation behind the post. Are you Mr. Morelands saviour? Can he not intellectually defend himself in a Post without a patzer chess groupy coming to his aid? I'm way too smart for your silly games Mr. Burchman, your attempt to save face does not cloud the simple fact, that is obviously painfully clear to you and others, I AM, at this moment, number one at ICC. Not saying I'll be there forever, but I am for now, Sorry. Now, if I were to entertain a match with you it would have to take place under more sain conditions such as: 1. Enter into a temporary agreement with ICC to purchase a $100 dollars worth of chekels and upon the conclusion of the match, ICC would pay the winner directly. I'm sorry Sir, you may be able to trust Mr. Moreland with you money but i'm not insane enough to send my money to a perfect stranger no matter how much chess notoriety he has. Once your recieve payment, do with it whatever you please, charities...etc. 2. Each player must give hardware/software setup for verification. Provide a Windows capture of your current processor configuration. There are several freeware programs to accomplish this on the net. Post the results to CCC. Program really doesn't matter because you simply can't produce a program that can dominate the Tigers in a match. Now with this, there would be opportunity for you to cheat and I would welcome it. 100 chekels would be worth you living with that fact. Point is, there is no sure way to verify hardware, which is very important in comp/comp matches. So your word, which appears to be suspect based on your mysterious comments on your setup, is all we have to go on. But in the spirit of competion Mr. Burcham, I'll give your the benefit of the doubt. 3. The terms of the match will not vary from standard rules and regulations. I'll agree on 2 seperate time controls as long as we play and ever amount of games. Now, sir I think this is FAIR and I don't see any reasonable person that knows anything about computer/computer chess play would disagree. I'll suggest even better, let CCC vote on the terms of the match. Yours or mine and we'll see, once we weed through the obvious biased bunch, where the balanced minded chess enthusiats are. So there, the response to your challenge Mr. Burcham is that what you were(in the words of Mr. Moreland)TROLLING for? This has been a truly fun and enlightening experience, engaging in meaningless immature conversation with the elite group of chess computer scientist. Cheers! > > i assume some will be alarmed of the nature of this post. > but i thought it might not be so severe if we decide to make this a > charity match. > > > thanks mr. curtis williams > and good luck with your icc account
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