Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:16:47 06/17/02
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On June 17, 2002 at 15:02:34, Torstein Hall wrote: >I do not belive you have any reason to call them prejudiced because they did not >test Virtual Chess. So I think your prejudice showed up in your choice of that >word. But I will offer my excuse anyway, nothing good comes from name calling! a prejudice is when you say something without having experienced facts/data. when you say a chess program is weak, so we don't test it, this is a prejudice. if you call me prejudice because i call this prejudice, this is IMO nonsense. because i have tested virtual chess and i have manually played many games. i put virtual in my tournaments and i know it was a strong program. others feel or know this too. so WE played out data. how can we be prejudiced ??? prejudiced is somebody saying something without knowing. thats the definition. i have virtual dos and windows here. i used it. >We both know that there is a lot of work to play manual games if you want to use >statistics in the way SDSF do, and a program with no autoplay function is not >very likely to be tested. we know that it is much work. but they tested other programs without auto232 . >But I'm sure they would welcome you into their >society, wrong. the ssdf do only accept swedish guys. another problem. a kind of testing racism :-)) > specially if you cared to play 50 to 100 games with Virtual chess >manually.... :-) i would say it is a little to late for virtual. the program is OLD now. >Best regards and many excuses >Torstein no problem torstein. everything is IMO within green area. no excuses or apologizes. i can stand more than named prejudiced.
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