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Subject: Re: MOD: Tone it down please...this post is not admissible as evidence.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:18:46 12/17/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 06:04:27, robert michelena wrote:

>Jerome, as a third year law student, I was only pointing out what to me is self
>evident; these assertions that the player on the other end of the internet
>connection used brain power to defeat a program would not be admissible in any
>court of law as valid evidence.  We call it hearsay.
>
>Until someone post proof that an "average player" (non master strength; national
>master and international master and above ) defeated a program over the board
>without aid from any source, I deem all assertions as suspect at best.
>

That is baloney.  Someone _already_ posted games played at the 1996 Aegon
tournament, where humans and computers are in the same room, playing under
tournament conditions, with a tournament director present, and with a large
audience watching all the time.

Did you overlook that intentionally, or unintentionally???






>As for the communist dialectic, it seems to me that I am the victim of those
>exhibiting fanatical "party directed" zeal.



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