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Subject: Re: A comment :o).

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 03:34:01 10/15/00

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On October 15, 2000 at 04:00:09, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On October 15, 2000 at 03:19:12, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>Heh, not to be picky, but you were sorta doing the same thing with Gandalf.  :)
>>Maybe not to the same extent, but close.
>
>I really don't think so. Not close at all. I can't recall praising individual
>games or commending other beta testers on their awesome achievements, or
>starting threads for that purpose. I've answered questions and posted what
>Gandalf thought about various testpositions whether it solved them or not.
>
>Furthermore, I didn't post any games nor did I claim that Gandalf was the
>strongest program overall. Just mentioned that I thought the data indicated that
>Gandalf was the strongest WinBoard engine and that I liked the way it plays
>chess, win or lose.
>
>If you can recall anything that looked like dubious or insincere behaviour,
>please let me know.
>
>Mogens.


Well, I guess I mean you, and other Gandalf beta testers were hyping it a bit.
Then agian so was the Chessbase 8 Beta Testers, and others too.  Not many people
are innocent of this.  You have a neat toy that no one else has, so you
naturally want to brag or just plain show it off.  Nothing wrong with that.
But, I agree there is a point when it become blantantly overdone.

JW



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