Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:48:09 03/12/00
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On March 11, 2000 at 18:11:58, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On March 11, 2000 at 17:29:46, blass uri wrote: > >>GM Ram sofer won Fritz6 in the Israeli first league and I heard no excuses. >>GM yudasin won Junior5 1.5:.5 one year ago and I heard no excuses. >> >>Uri > >There's a difference between league play and match play. And I don't think that >programmers are the worst, but there's a community that sometimes lack the sense >of perspective. But my main point is that there's no glory in defeating a I think this is a huge insult to programmers everywhere, and totally undeserved. Consider DB vs. GK II. GK lost, so instead of accepting defeat gracefully, he accused his opponent of cheating (and his only evidence was that DB made some moves that looked suspect!). And then, when the DB team accepted their prize, they got booed! How tasteless is that? When they lost to GK in the first match, I didn't hear any whining. -Tom
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