Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 11:46:57 10/02/00
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On October 02, 2000 at 13:24:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 02, 2000 at 08:55:25, Ritter Rost wrote: > >>If you deal with journalists, you experience that they sometimes write unwanted >>or incorrect things. Marcus Kaestner is an impulsive enthusiast who cannot >>really hurt you with his circulation of 200-300 copies. He is no rocket >>scientist but he represents the part of the market which is important for >>Shredder: the computer chess freaks. > >Without wanting to get involved into the chessbits vs shredder/MCS case, >a world micro world title is potentially worth way more as 300 copies. > >A million dollar? > >>In my opinion this pompous law-suit-overreaction leaves a sour taste. I always >>thought you had nothing to do with the legal threats/actions in the name of >>Shredder. The campaign against the SSDF is only a couple of weeks behind us. If > >SSDF is a clear case of outbooking and 'who has the better learning' and >'who provides SSDF with a new machine' and 'my implementation of >auto232 doesn't give you a save game command so you can't learn hehehehe'. No one has ever provided us with a new machine or a single dollar. All programs of today learns even if the game for some reason isn't saved. Even if you are a programmer and good chess-player it would be nice if you at least occasitionally told the truth or checked the facts. Bertil >Note that SSDF plays with each program only a fraction of the games that >are played in tests with the programs, SOS perhaps being an exception, though >some others might want to command even the opposite of that as many could >test a winboard version. > >However, where this list is arguable a complete freak list, just a >few freak see the output of that list. This is completely independant from a >possible WMCC title which gets stolen from a person because a tester of >him has revealed information to a third party (without wanting to >take position whether Marcus DID reveal such information). > >Thank God that tiger lost that game. 1/2 point behind Fritz otherwise, >which didn't even get DIEP as opponent, though i had prepared for Fritz. > >>it hadn't been such a repetitive boredom people might have actually read those >>endless articles of your friends in German Chess Magazines against the SSDF. > >>Your post here provokes unwanted advice like the following: You are not good at >>law suits and mud-throwing. You are good at writing chess programs. > >Oh well that's true for al lot of persons. Especially myself included in >the 'you suck in contracts' list.
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