Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 09:44:45 12/03/00
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On December 03, 2000 at 11:52:17, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 03, 2000 at 09:02:08, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >(snip) >>Another issue in this story is the opening thing at London. This was NOT the >>main issue in this case at the court and we are NOT suing Marcus to have used >>insider knowledge against me. To be honest I also do not care anymore if he did >>or not because it’s history now and won’t happen again. But as this is also >>brought up here again and again I will give you my view about this also. >> >>Ed, Christophe and Jeroen: I am ready to believe you that Jeroen was the one who >>did the opening choice in London if you all say so, but there is one problem: In >>his magazine Marcus Kaestner describes in details how HE prepared Tiger against >>various opponents, for example on page 17 against Nimzo. He also claimed that he >>has recommended a line against Shredder in the Belgrade Gambit to Ed and showed >>him a 20 moves long line that he expected Shredder to play 5 minutes BEFORE the >>game (page 13), well, it WAS the line that Shredder finally played… So there is >>something wrong here. Either Marcus Kaestner HAD influence on the opening choice >>or he is NOT telling the truth in his magazine. Please remember: This is not a >>story I dreamed last night, it is WRITTEN in his magazine, you can read it there >>if you can read German. > > > >Stefan, why did you not ask first, before taking the risk of spreading false >informations, and even false accusations? Christophe, it was not me who started spreading this information. Please read Marcus' magazine. I got all my information from there. >Because, as I understand, you are yourself convinced that we (the Tiger team) >have cheated against you (the Shredder team)? > >Do you feel that we have cheated? I would like to know your opinion. I don't think that you, Jeron or Ed have cheated. After what I have read in Marcus' magazine I believe that Marcus had great influence of the opening choice of Rebel and Tiger. I do not accuse you of being cheaters. >I am ready to discuss this issue here. We could do that by private email, but I >feel like I have nothing to hide, and if you have no problem with this, we could >discuss it here. > > > > >>Again, I DO NOT CARE which one is true. > > > >I think it is your interest to know which one is true. Maybe even both are true. > >It is not wise to say that you do not care. You are using this argument in a >lawsuit, and you don't care? I don't care because London is over for a couple of months now. I don't care because I scored 1.5/2 with black against Tiger and Rebel. I don't care because I am happy with the result of London. I do care if Marcus calls me a liar by using the information he wrote in his magazin. >I think the best thing to do is to talk about it directly. I give my version of >the story, Marcus gives his version, you give yours, and let's see what doesn't >fit. > > > > >>Now Marcus Kaestner accuses us in public to have cheated the judges on purpose >>which we asked him to stop doing. >> >>Marcus Kaestner is playing the role of “poor little innocent Marcus against the >>evil empire that is trying to destroy” him quite successful. > > > >But you are giving him the opportunity to do so with your lawsuit. > >You have won the WMCCC. You have a very good reputation. Why are you spoiling it >by attacking a little independant tester? Even if Marcus has done something >wrong (I don't even know), why do you ever care? I don't even understand where >the damage is. Shredder is high in his rating list. > >Before your company attacked him in a legal case, he had never told anything >negative about Shredder. Just imagine the following: Before Tiger came out a couple of weeks ago and after winning the French and Dutch championship you had excellent reactions here and people were eager to get it as soon as possible. What if I had written without having a copy of Tiger: "Yes, Tiger is a nice program but it gets nuked by my latest Shredder5." So you tell me: "Hey, stop this you don't even have Tiger!" My response would be: "It's funny how people thing they what I have and what I don't have." Another one will ask me here: "What is your assumption based on?" and I would answer. "I have certainly played many games at tournament time controls with Tiger so I know". So seriously: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT??? I think that Tiger and Gambit Tiger are VERY strong, and if people will test Shredder5 against Tiger and Shredder gets killed I won't certainly be very happy. Also the new Fritz is likely to be a killer again and if he is better than Shredder in "real" tests than I have to improve again. But if people say that Fritz or Tiger are better than Shredder without even knowing Shredder than this is a major problem for me. Stefan
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