Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:15:58 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 17:22:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On April 17, 2001 at 14:06:56, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2001 at 04:35:44, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>This is yet another insult to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen.
>>>
>>>What is going on here is that many people don't recognize the legitimacy of the
>>>titles that Stefan's program has won over the years, and refuse to grant him the
>>>leadership position that he has earned in fair and open competition.
>>
>>
>>
>>I have another point of view.
>>
>>I see the current stream of events as an insult to the authors of the other very
>>good chess programs.
>>
>>What happened? First Shredder wins the WMCCC 2000 (a short tournament, be it an
>>open and fair event). But then the SSDF is forbidden to publish the results of
>>this program (an attitude which is not fair and open, who can disagree?).
>
>Can you spell "Rebel"? :) Didn't Ed do the same thing some while back?
Ed had not just win a short tournament labelled "World Championship", and was
not trying to capitalize heavily on such a victory.
Christophe
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