Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:15:11 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 13:15:16, Michael Neish wrote: > >>>Chris is a good chess programmer with an interesting product. >>>Too bad he has to be so >>>err... >>>um... >>>ah.... >>>eccentric. >> >>Eccentric is the wrong word. Spiteful is closer. > >Okay, after reading through this thread I just can't resist writing. > >As a relative newcomer to this forum, all this business about Chris being banned >from here >predates me. There's obviously a lot of ill-feeling still in the air. Could >someone please >summarise what happened between him and other members of CCC that caused all >this? >It would help people such as myself put this new forum in the right context. > >Disclaimer: this is really an innocent question. I don't want to set off a >thread of angry, >spiteful posts between supporters of either side! > >Cheers, > >Mike. It went like this: several from r.g.c.c decided to form a moderated message board to eliminate some of the nonsense from r.g.c.c. One of the _major_ players in that nonsense was Rolf Teuschen, who (for a while) was simply stalking Ed (Rebel) continually. When we came over here, Chris insisted that we Ban rolf after Rolf made several statements in the newsgroup, about either Ed or Chris/Thorsten (I don't remember the details now and really don't care.) After a _lot_ of discussion, we gave in and banned Rolf. Later Chris got pissed about something else, and decided that banning rolf was wrong, and then revised history to imply that it was not his desire to do so, that it was _us_. He left in a huff, and asked that his password be deleted. After several long discussions with him, the original group of moderators and founders asked steve to do so. In reality, his account wasn't deleted, the password was changed. Which meant that he couldn't log in, nor create the account again. That was a short summary. That is enough for here. Chris is like all of us, he has his ups and downs. But he also has real problems getting past old mistakes and moving on. IE kick him in the shin today... and perhaps in 10 years, when you least expect it, he might kick back. Long after most of us would have forgotten about it. There are other 'issues' dealing with fast programs vs slow programs... but that is another subject altogether...
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