Author: CLiebert
Date: 01:38:11 01/30/04
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On January 29, 2004 at 21:29:41, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On January 29, 2004 at 19:33:59, CLiebert wrote: > > >Here the translation of the most important paragraphs of Liebert's message; >topic is the question why the communication failed between ICGA TD and Fritz >Reul: > >CL writes: > >[quote begin] > >- if the ICGA, caused by conditions whatsoever, had to check an engine, and >their rules indicated such a check in that case, then ICGA must do that after >the rules no matter how these rules could be judged. I had wished a lot more >tact, but this is not justiciable, only desirable. And because that tact wasn't >shown also Fritz Reul had little interest to counter this rigid (but formally >correct) interpretation of the rules with further activities. The Wch wasn't so >interesting for him like his examins. [...] >Did ICGA violate its own rules? No. >Did someone protest against these rules before the tournament? No. Fritz Reil >neither, but he didn't know these rules admittedly. [...] > >With the time there was a concrete suspicion. How should it be evaluated? If a >programmer reads "Schach am PC" [a book in German from Friedel&Steinwender; >Rolf] and creates a new super-engine starting from these Minimax-ideas, is it a >clone then? I think no it's not! > >Fritz has declared that was inspired from public sources, books, net-infos, >public source-codes, etc. over a longer time. But an engine doesn't become >stronger with 100 Elo points only by finetuning Crafty. One needs basically new >ideas. See the statement of the ARI programmer who knows the code. A trustworthy >witness who could have turned around matters with a statement at the Wch!? I >just make the proposal that the code of Crafty has relatively exhausted its >possibilities - don't scold me, I know this is saucy - but if Bob >doesn't achieve to make things better over the last 4 years, nobody else will >succeed..... ;-) > > [quote end] > > >This was for me the most important part of the long German message of Christian >Liebert, someone who has telephoned with Fritz Reul during the questionable time >of the Wch in Graz or directly there after. > >This is for me the first indirect quote from soemthing how Fritz Reul reacted >and I am very thankful for this publication from Christian. > >May the news now inspire the minds of our readers. I've done what I could. I >asked so many questions that Christian doubted that I had read his former >statements at all. But with my stamina I think I got some important news. I am >certain that if people had known this reaction by Fritz Reul many delusions >wouldn't have come up. There was nothing new in it, i wrote it two month ago on my homepage. Regards Christian
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