Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:44:09 01/23/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 13:24:34, Paul Doire wrote: >On January 23, 2001 at 11:51:44, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On January 23, 2001 at 07:53:53, Vladimir Sokolov wrote: >> >>>After reception of Millenium 2001 packet we tested immediately. >>>There is a weakness in the tactics of Shredder 5.0 and my program find the >>>weakness and use it. It is simple weakness but if anybody sees the weakness. >>>In small tournament of 5 games, in 4 games without interruption Shredder was >>>defeated with Auto232 between 2 computers of each AMD Athlon T-bird 1.2 mhz / >>>1024 ram with Asus A7V ATX multi motherboard at 40 moves in 2 hours with each >>>own book, hash 256 Mb and all tablebases 3-4-5 >>>Maybe next year in international championship my private program also if the >>>airplane is not expensive. >>>The 5 games pgn files of small tournament are available at request to my E mail. >>> >>>Vladimir >> >>Wow , didn't you get some unfriendly answers ;-) ? >> >>Just to mention : nowhere in this post is anything said that claims this Russian >>program is stronger than Shredder . > > >BTW the title says it all. >Paul I wonder why all those responses to Mr Sokolv's post do annoy me . The title says it all ? No , the title says "World champion defeated by russian program" which is exactly what happened in this match . This doesn't necessarily mean that the author claims his program is stronger than this "world champion" . Did you even bother to have a look at these games ? My guess is : no . Everybody communicates in English here as this is the most convenient way but I am sometimes annoyed if people become picky with foreigners . I understand people with native language English , I also usually get their undertone very well . I obviously have an easy time to understand people whose native language is German , too . I have a hard time understanding hidden messages in posts from some South Americans though , also their humour seems to work in a slightly different way . This doesn't mean their English is any worse , but it does mean their thoughts sometimes don't make it through the double language barrier : theirs _and_ mine . Just imagine your program just beat Shredder in a very convincing way , or maybe imagine : YOU just beat Kasparov 4 games in a row . I think if _I_ managed to do this I might post something like "German patzer beats the best player of the world " , I might even do it _here_ although it would be completely off-topic :-) I don't remember any posts from Mr Sokolov from the past so this seems to be the "welcome" he got from the club members . Please understand that this is not an answer guided completely towards _your_ answer but also some general thought regarding communication in a language which is foreign to quite a few . Tolerance is important here and it might be a good guideline to expect people don't intend anything bad at all if you see something a little irritating until verified . pete
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