Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:53:34 12/06/00
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On December 06, 2000 at 10:24:42, K. Burcham wrote:
>hmmmm. let me see if i have this in order. (1) so there is an accomplished chess
>master that stefan feels comfortable with. stefan decides he wants marcus to be
>a beta tester for the new shredder5. so he trusts and confides in marcus, an
>upgrade of his shredder4 program. of course, we all know the purpose in doing
>this---to get back with the programmer, if he sees any changes or impovements
>that could be made before releasing to the public. marcus while studying this
>program, sees a weakness in one of the opening lines. (2) now for some reason,
>later on, marcus is now helping a competitor, the millennium team, ed and chris,
>operating the new tiger in the tournament. so marcus being the competitor that
>he is, decides to reveal to ed, this weakness in shredders book. were ed and
>chris aware of all of this before the shredder match in the tournament. why sure
>they were, thats why they wanted him there.
You are writting nonsense here.
The books for the tournament have been prepared by Jeroen Noomen one week or
more BEFORE the tournament, when we did not even know that Marcus would operate
the program (Marcus has been selected at the last minute because Jeroen, who was
initially supposed to operate the program, has fallen ill a few days before the
tournament).
So the books had been finalized without any help from Marcus.
Then, during the tournament, neither Marcus nor Ed had the possibility to change
the books. This is my fault. I had not provided any tool to change the books
because I thought it was not necessary. Of course it was stupid from my side,
and we have got into trouble later because of this. In the game against Nimzo,
Marcus has found a way to change slightly the program's behaviour by setting up
a different time control. But this has nothing to do with writting an opening
book line. Marcus has explained this, I think, in his magazine. And it seems
that, from this, Millennium has decided that Marcus had an influence on every
game!
So Marcus never had any chance to change any book. The line that has been played
in the game against Shredder has been played because Jeroen had written this
line weeks before the tournament happened.
It is important that everybody interested in the topic understands this. It
shows that any cheating from Marcus was actually impossible.
THERE WERE 6 OPENING BOOK. THEY HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY JEROEN NOOMEN, WEEKS BEFORE
THE TOURNAMENT. IT WAS NOT (UNFORTUNATELY) POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE BOOKS DURING
THE TOURNAMENT.
Christophe
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