Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 06:50:17 08/14/98
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Hi Thorsten, I regard your behavior concerning me as inacceptable. You wrote to Enrique Irazoqui: >there was no compain against chessBase. >Dirk has worked for chessbase before. Moritz does. >You are all working for chessBase. >I am not interested if you get money or not. >But that you all call me doing a campaign AGAINST chessBase looks >a little suspicious for 3 people working for chessbase, doesn't it ?! I regard your style here as extremely disgusting. We know each other since many years. I openly discussed matters of computer chess with you in quite a private and trustful manner over all this time. We oftend exchanged views on phone, joked and laughed together. I cannot remember I ever treated you unfair. Now I realize that it is more important for you to keep your hatred and low estimation towards Fritz5 and Chessbase persons than keep the respect I regard as fundamental for any personal relationship. When we had different Fritz5 results and got discussions about it on CCC I finally phoned you and we agreed to exchange results and evaluations without any prejudice. This was my effort keep our releation in a fair way, although you had uttered lots of negatively generalizing, very emotional and from my view in part completely childish and unqualified remarks about SSDF and Chessbase (members). I ignored the strange tone and style of some of these postings for the sake of our friendship. And when you began your new tournament I wrote greetings to you and wished you fun. I never doubted your integrity concerning testing chess programs. Now I see you telling everybody I should have "worked for chessbase" (whatever you wish to say this way) in a context clearly indicating that Enrique, Moritz and I would not write in any objective way about Fritz5, because we were connected to closely with Chessbase. 1. This forces me to put some of your dirty allusions clear. a) You raise a completely wrong impression about me as "having worked for Chessbase", knowing very well that people will have completely wrong phantasies about your allusion. Fact is: I liked Fritz2 for its agressive style and then wrote an agressive little opening book for it for private fun. Chessbase asked me if they could use this book, and I saw no reason to deny it. I never was on their payroll. b) I know Matthias Wuellenweber since the first days when he developed the first Chessbase version. As I often told you, I have a lot respect for him. This respect has never prevented me from telling him or others what I like about Chessbase and what not. Despite of many discussions with him (some of them sharp in content though never in tone) I never experienced such a dirty style from him as you perform it now. Of course I cannot repair the damage you try to put to my integrity here in public. This works like "Etwas bleibt immer haengen", as you very well know. Low "Bild-Zeitungs" level. I would never write similar things about more than one very close realtionships (*much* closer than I ever had any) you had to some chess programmers and their products over the years. Claiming here and now that I was independent from anyone - despite various real friendships which I never treated or treat as a secret - would not have any other effect than political dementis, rather raising more suspicion against me than putting things clear. So I have to accept that you succesfully raised the dead wrong impression as if I were not able to write objective about Fritz5 or whatever program, just because I in Fritz2 times once allowed them to use my book. 2. I may be in part helpless against this kind of public dirty allusions. But I can easily get rid of "friends" who act worse than enemies. So please be so kind and regard our relationship as finished. I am not interested in it any more. Kind regards from Dirk
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