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Subject: Re: A Possible Explanation For The TOGA Affair

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 12:51:57 12/23/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 14:04:04, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On December 23, 2005 at 11:31:05, Keith Hyams wrote:
>
>>On December 23, 2005 at 05:36:12, Thomas Gaksch wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, I am GUILTY Rolf
>>>
>>>bye, bye Computer-Chess (Club)
>>One thing that you can learn from this is that feedback on this forum and, I
>>assume, most others, is unpredictable and, if referenced to a single day,
>>largely meaningless. About 2 weeks ago Vas, the author of Rybka, got a lot of
>>very uncomplimentary posts on this forum. I have reason to suspect that his
>>resilience is partly due to his realisation of the above.
>>
>>If your decision to leave is irreversible then I am sad and want to thank you
>>for your contribution.
>>                               Best regards
>>                                        Keith
>
>
>What is really sad - that you dont support my vain attempt to tell the guy that
>he's NOT "guilty" IF he gives a bit news about his motives to cheat. Leaving
>with the exaggerated phrase "I'm guilty" has a childish factor and therefore
>shouldnt be used by adults. The point is that he doesnt feel guilty at all but
>he wants to imply that the community is so stubborn for not realising the very
>good of his false pretending. But morally he simply cant expect that all others
>congratulate him for a wonderful cheat. That would be a bit too much expected.
>But again, with a couple of explanations he could well reach his goal of
>receiving forgiveness. But NOT with such a dickhead... - In my view the
>pretending of having developped a new chess engine isnt honest. And for that
>reason he should make a couple of efforts to show that he has understood it.
>From his very aggressive response I conclude that he wont understand what was
>wrong with his behavior. :(


He HAS stated several times in the past that he's sorry for what happened
about Toga. Why we have to rerun the witch-persecution again and again?
Anybody know that Toga is a Fruit clone. Thomas has admitted that. This
can be read in Toga readme file.
What more he has to do? To lash his back until blood?



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