Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 12:26:26 11/03/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 13:29:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>A last thought that you might well consider. Vincent is proud of his connection >>with the late Louwman who was famous for his extreme impolite verbal jabs and >>uppercuts. Louwman was a Dutch Jew IMO who lost many family members by the >>Nazis. And he had to live his last years with extreme pain due to illnesses. I >>do not excuse Vincent, but knowing a particular background can often aat least >>explain a bit something seemingly outrageous. Please let's not be too rigid in >>condemning such a motivated guy. Just give him a smiling eye in the memory of >>Jan Louwman. Thanks. > >Remember that I was not a fan of Jan Louwman. I saw significant misbehavior >at ACM events, with respect to the "move now" button, which is _not_ allowed >in computer chess events... Let's forget about his personal guilt now he's gone but let's keep it in mind for a record of possible cheats. - But as a general moral: couldn't it be that you can handle the fact of possible cheats better (and without any paranoia just because you know too well what could be possibly done) than others? When I came into the scene one of the first informations was about the existence of whole lot of paranoia in computerchess. I didn't bring it up. But I always thought that information is the only remedy against that syndrome. Rolf
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