Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 07:56:30 10/02/00
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On October 02, 2000 at 09:11:44, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >The story sounds nice, but this is not true. The person who got his copy was not >a beta tester at this time and didn't get beta versions from me for quite a >while. The statememt that I was on holiday at this time is also not true. giving away a beta-version of a program is IMO a very shit thing, it breakes the relationship between the tester and the programmer. How can you trust in the future ?! >>Harming Shredder? You must be kidding. Marcus is a man of the first >>hour loving ALL the chess programs like most of us here and as I >>know him he is without any prejudices against any program. If you >>read his magazine well you will see how enthusiastic he is about >>your program. As i have read in Stefan´s championship-report, marcus operated tiger in the game tiger versus shredder in round 2. also i read that the operator (marcus ?!) told stefan, that he had prepared this line against shredder4. Really only against shredder4 or also against shredder4.16 ?! As far as i remember marcus knows exactly that this line is a weakness of shredder, as marcus was in paderborn too (as we all have been) and marcus was also in the opening-preparation team of shredder in paderborn 2 years ago. so the question to me is: has marcus maybe misused insider knowledge to help the rebel-team to get advantage out of the fact that he had beta-versions (no matter if 4.16 or later) and tried to use this insider-knowledge against stefan/shredder ?! if this is the case, it seems to me a reason for stefans bad mood. >How about his statements that he has tested the London version of Shredder and >found it inferior to Rebel and Tiger. There is nothing wrong with that if he had >tested the London version which he hasn't. and if he HAD the london version, it would be a mean thing to use the knowledge , be a member of YOUR team and choose/play (an) opening(s) he know shredder would fail. this would be IMO a misuse of insider-information, no matter if he WAS or wasn´t part of a shredder team in the past, or has subscribed a non disclosure agreement himself.
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