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Subject: Re: Manners and Etiquette in Chess (the Tieviekov incident)

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 10:21:15 05/16/00

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>It is very simple - I am a chess player as well as a TD, and I am quite shocked
>at the lack of understanding from this forum about etiquette in chess.  It
>almost seems to me that a large majority of you has either never been to a real
>chess event, never mind a man-machine one, or you are simply holding a bias
>towards favouring the machine that is completely clouding your judgement.
>Furthermore, as a player and author, I know how finicky, particular, and
>downright strange elite chess players can be - knowing this, and also knowing
>that one day when I get my program to a semi-finished product that I want to
>have it play some human oposition - I know that we MUST play by the GMs' rules,
>or we will find ourselves in the truly sad situation of having to play our
>programs against each other and never have any human opposition.
>

Adrien,

You are correct Sir.   I know how finicky,particular and downright strange elite
chess program writers can be.....  So who is higher?  Guys that own their own
company ie Shay Bushinsky and Amir Ban and are multimillionaires or some effete
moderately well off chess grandmaster.

Let's progress and forget about appeasing spoiled brats.



Tim Frohlick



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