Author: Marcos Christensen
Date: 07:53:44 04/28/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 19:47:53, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Dear wayne:
>I agree with you in every word you have written about the capacities, talents,
>kindness, etc of Doctor Hyatt and surely nobody here does not, but,
>nevertheless, it is neccesary some parsimony or you face the danger to go beyond
>the limits and makes of Hyattt a kind of Dalai Lama. It is clear that to say
>"not that strong" does not involves to say "weak"; it depends of how much
>strenght is involved in the sentence "that strong" . If strong is equal to be
>4000 Elo, even Kasparov is "not that strong".
>Respect the style of some post, some of them could be or seems to be harsh, but
>harshness is a kind of usual stuff here and Mrt Hyatt is not the less inclined
>guy to use his own dosis of it. I have seen some of his post saying almost
>"idiot" to someone. He can be harsh in ocasions and surely he can sustain some
>harshness. We are grown up people, not violets. In other words, he is not in an
>special category, no matter what his tittles in the field of computer science
>are. Doctors, masters and all kind of high level people with high degrees are
>not scarce here so I consider that he is just another member with no more
>rights to special treatment than you, Bruce, Larry or, by the way, doctor
>Irazoqui. This is not to say I love to read harsh posts; I have respect for
>everyone here, doctor or not, master or not, but for the same token, because I
>respect Hyatt, I do not believe he is so a weak person that he will faint if
>someone say this or that of his program. Of course he can get anfry and go, but
>that posibility cannot be a reason to make special rules to post anything
>connected with him. And of course his eventual exit would be a a damage, but,
>again, that cannot be used as a tool to ask nothing that we does not ask for
>everybody here.
>I hope this post will be understood in his true light, not as another vicious
>attack.
>Cheers
>Fernando
This post is very insightful, and the author deserve my congratulations. I
will go even further, you have to separate the programs from his author.
Sometimes a strong program has a kind and well resolved author, sometimes a
strong program has a nasty jerk as author(weak programs too). And this goes to
all human activities , books, songs, painting etc.
Crafty is a good program I am downloading and using it since version 9.21,
and I think it doesnt deserve attaks. It does what is supposed to do (play
chess)
In fact I believe that crafty is guilty in making the comercial programs
stronger. The tree book with learning, egtb and SMP were first on crafty. In ICC
singacrafty and Data running in decent hardware are very strong and dangerous
oponents as seen by its ratings.
Unfotunately the real strenght of crafty and scrappy cannot be assessed
because is hidden in a curtain of smoke and mistification (formulas and
policies).
Marcos Christensen
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