Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 06:04:02 01/27/03
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On January 27, 2003 at 02:18:36, Bruce Moreland wrote: >DJ lost. Aside from this, neither it nor its team has anything to be ashamed >of. Chess is a zero-sum game. Objection! It is a business, Bruce. Of course the team and poor DJ are not to be blamed, but the spin doctors who lied about the strength of today's progs, they are to be blamed. That's why people are so deceived. How was Bob Hyatt treated when he said that the advantage of DB2 was still a trump card? It's the CC people themselves who on the one side have the knowledge but on the other side drifted into daydreaming wishful thinking. > Sometimes you lose. Losses are rarely pretty. >When computers lose, it's even more likely that you'll see something ugly, >because a computer will make the strongest move it can, not the strongest move >that is not embarassing. You misunderstand the chess of this game. Sorry. But as I said often enough, the playing down a book line without real understanding is a scandal to CC itself. Throw the books in the trash and let the engine play its chess. Or just add some pretty rational openings. But the pretension of being able to play such special lines is impostering and an insult to all smart CC friends. Of course we know that DJ can do better than this. And Kasparov will prove it. But you way of hand waving this scandal away, because chess should be a null sum blabla, which it isn't BTW, is more than unwanted. You support a myth that should better be buried yesterday. Rolf Tueschen > >bruce
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