Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 14:09:39 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 16:40:55, Fernando Villegas wrote: >1) From an ideal point of view avery tourn in every competence is less than >perfect. >2) Please name just one human chess tourn between human that has not produced >controversy because this or that: Kasparov was not there or Fisher was not there >or Ivanov was not there or Fide is a corrupt corp or some flys were spying for >the KGB.... Same with chess computer competences. >3) Practicalities of every sort hinders perfection: Every time some performers >are out of the competence. Trying to get all the candidates to glory is equal to >do nothing. >4) In the Millenimum tourn mabye some programs will be absent and MAYBE they >deserve to be, but no present program does not deserve to be there, for sure. >5) We are going to get a great fun of the tourn as it is: a great program >against a great GM. It is not enough? >6) There will be in the future other tourns with other programs and GM's to >satisfy all hands. How many times has a program got to play a match against the World Champion? >7) Everybody know what to think of the result, wichever could be. If schreder >competes and wins, then Schredder competed and won. That's all. >8) It is a luck that tourns does not depend of a site like this or we would not >have non. >9) Humans are a weird, suicidal class of animals: they do the most they can to >kill endeavours tried by other people. I like to think of myself as a reasonably positive person, but this thing just smells too bad sorry. >10) This is not the most important thing that will happens in the world in the >year of the Lord, 2001, so hold your horses and keep your mouths inside the >limits of elegance, decency and commons sense. Ah, this last paragraph explains your entire post Fernando! Of course this whole thing isn't so important to you, but then you haven't spent many years, many thousands of hours developing one of the best chess programs in the world. You haven't made many personal sacrifices to develop this program, you haven't invested your WHOLE CAREER in this pursuit! Its all very well to overlook a little bit of injustice here or there as long as you are happy. Try placing yourself in the position of Ed, or Christophe, or Steffan and your views may change. > >Fernando
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