Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 05:43:15 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 07:37:00, Hans Gerber wrote: >That is a fine article! Bravo! > >Two little corrections. Tiviakov didn't lose! So how could he be a poor loser? >Second. Not the computers insult the chessplayers but the operators, or in the >case of the DB vs Kasparov event, the DB team insulted Kasparov. > >And how can you expect that people in computerchess know something about manners >and etiquette if such big ones like Hsu Feng, B. Moreland or R. Hyatt give such >bad examples. Even the father of the actual worldchampion SHREDDER wrote about >Tiviakov as a joke; R. Hyatt calls Kasparov a jerk here in CCC almost daily. All >these people are good experts but they don't come out of the chess scenery. They >don't know how chess is played among GMs. > >Behind all this there is a hidden source. If you become familiar with the stars >in a special field you are in danger of confusing the triviality of average >behavior and the gigantic performance of heros. Because you can't understand >that you can't devellop respect, you might misunderstand the ranking lists or >the money, misunderstanding that all chessmasters have enormous talents way >above average people. > >But what do I tell you? Have you an idea how we could explain style and all that >to computerchess people, to people who are mainly interested in numbers and >technical details? :) This message board is dedicated to computer chess people. If you don't like them, there are other message boards to visit. Stefan
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