Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 22:40:51 10/04/00
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> The complaints have started only recently. I (for instance) > read only a fraction of the messages, and the topic for this > thread was totally uninteresting to me. Just because some little group behind scenes organizes email complainst, it doesn't mean they're right to complain. If accusation were left to stay and produce gigantic thread (nobody missed it, and nobody will buy that rationale), the accused should have a right to respond in the same open manner or the smear stands. Additionally, the whole issue is surely very interesting to all computer chess hobbysts or programmers. It is unbelievable story, a news event which will be quoted out of here. Computer chess isn't only about bitboards vs mailbox, you know. This is the world of computer chess, too. It is about world championship, events behind the scenes, very interesting to anyone on CCC. Frankly, I trust Marcuses Kaestner's explanation above much more than the original accusation, which didn't quite fit. Now, SMK is nice person, to some, obviously not to Marcus. Being a world champion, does not mean a person has impecabble character. Marcus is a regular person, loves computer chess as anyone knows from his writing and activity, a person of high integrity, speaking sincerely and his story rings more true to me, and I bet to many more. His English is less polished, but his version is more believable. Famous persons, or persons with great achievements, often have some strange streak. For example, E. Schorodinger was a pedophile, molesting little girls throughut his life (like daughters of his friends), yet he was a first rate genius in physics, the real founder of Quantum theory. Newton was very unpleasant and mean to some, very nice to others. We also know that almost every human chess champion was a strange fellow, with strange character flaws (Fischer isn't the weirdest, I mean he is an antisemitic Jew). It takes often certain type of character and huge degree of drive and self-denial to pursue and achieve the world championship in anything. That doesn't go without a price to be pay. I don't know anything personally about SMK, other than from what he posts here. So none of historical patterns need apply to him. But if one is asked who to trust in this kind of dispute, I would put my money on a regular person much rather than on an ultra-achiever. Life 101. Just because few fans/groupies of the champ have emailed moderators (have they?) behind the scenes to kill the thread, doesn't mean they're right. Unless of course, moderators wish to have CCC become a 2-3 person mutual admiration society. CCC is what it is due to all of us here, not just couple primadonnas demanding right to offend and to kill the threads when the offended person replies. If moderators kill the Kaestner's thread, while leaving SMK's, I am signing out of here for good. Such unfairness would not be tolerable. And the rest of regular folks here might just do the same. Then let the moderators and their stars talk to each other, see how much fun that will be and how long it will go. They might as well shut down the outfit.
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