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Subject: Re: The computer world champion is Shredder

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:12:08 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 02:15:58, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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


Neither was SMK I would wager...  Now the distributor?  :)



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