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Subject: Re: Shredder, ChessBits and Marcus Kaestner

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:10:12 10/02/00

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On October 02, 2000 at 10:00:45, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 02, 2000 at 09:40:35, Helmut Conrady wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2000 at 09:11:44, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>>Marcus is on the road for his job so he can't answer the coming days.
>>>>
>>>>Some comments...
>>>>
>>>>Marcus told me he has given a beta-copy to another member of your beta
>>>>team because the person in question (a well respected person totally
>>>>beyond any doubt) lost this beta-copy while you were on holidays. I
>>>>don't see any fishy going on provided the story is true.
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Secondly (according Marcus) there was no kind of non-disclosure
>>>>agreement between the two of you. Maybe you should be more clear
>>>>next time what is allowed and what is not?
>>>
>>>
>>>I think it is obvious that you can only test versions that you have on your
>>>computer.
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>How about his statements that he has tested the London version of Shredder
>>
>>Where did Marcus say he tested the London version?
>>
>>Helmut
>
>I remember that he said that Rebel and tiger are better than shredder in the
>endgame.
>
>I remember that people understood that he meant that shredder(london) is better
>because he did not say shredder4.16 from june 2000 is weaker than...

The word better is a mistake and the right word is of course weaker.

>
>I am not sure if Marcus said shredder(london) is weaker.

Stefan correctly found the right post when marcus answered me.
I remembered that I got the impression that marcus meant to shredder's london
but I did not remember the exact reason.

Uri



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