Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:24:12 10/05/00
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On October 05, 2000 at 01:40:51, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> 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. If you look carefully, you will see this didn't happen. We tried to remove all traces of the discussion. I hope we succeeded.
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