Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 22:19:48 04/16/01
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On April 16, 2001 at 15:52:33, Peter McKenzie wrote: > BUT, 4 programs playing in some mickey >mouse tournament is not a good qualification tournament! Too me it sounds >rather sick :-(. :-))) >Firstly, any qualification tournament should be an author operated manual >tournament on hardware selected and supplied by the author. Only this way can >we be certain that each program will play at its best. exactly ! In the way it is planned in the moment, the programmers are OUT of the event. the control is to some few non programming people. why ? >Secondly, the 4 programs are really too narrow a choice. Clearly the likes of >Tiger and Rebel should be playing. Also, there is a good case for a few other >programs such as Gandalf, Ferret, Crafty, Hiarcs, Nimzo. >Regards, >Peter i think the same. IMO the whole problem we have in the moment is, because Frederic and Ossi made a deal in paderborn to do it the way they do it now ! cause they cannot do it themselves they needed a few "objective" people with renommee and a name. these people have to be "convinced" to do it. its always the same story here: some business men plan something behind the scene, confront the computerchess-world with their "deals" and stop democracy. programmers will be reduced to puppets. and testers will be reduced to name-givers that can be directed in the process of making money by exploiting an idea. is this computerchess ? no. this is the opposite of it.
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