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Subject: Re: Why Shredder is not playing...

Author: Thomas Lagershausen

Date: 15:11:37 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 16:24:14, Mike S. wrote:

>On April 18, 2001 at 13:35:44, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>That is a very commendable attitude, but as a wildcard entry you didn't have
>>anything to lose. So the laissez-faire attitude is somewhat free IMO.
>
>Until now, I had the impression that you are a person who writes reasonable, and
>sometimes quite humorous IIRC, messages.

Oh Mike you understand to less.
>
>Did you now call Deep Junior a "wildcard entry"? What is this based upon?

No worldchampiontitel since 1997
no tournamentwin since the speedtourny of enrique
a very ugly style of chess
positional a weak program in comparison with fritz,shredder and tiger
lots of ugly games ( do you want examples?)
the stupid game against kramnik in dortmund 2000 on a4-way-machine
etc,etc,etc


>
>I can imagine that you wouldn't call Deep Shredder a wildcard entry - me
>neither.

how can you compare junior with the worldchampion shredder?

 But who has played so far, and won, an event of a comparable size and
>importance to that Braingames aim for? *Deep Blue* only did this when it beat
>Kasparov.
>
>People should start to realise the dimension of what is planned here.

we do this, but you agree to a wildcard for junior.
>
>Keeping the conditions in mind which were told to us, Deep Junior fully deserves
>to participate in this qualifying. Who doubts this?

Here we are.All people with a good clubniveau hate junior.
It plays such a ugly computerchess.

 It isn't an act of grace to
>invite it, this happened in view of it's rank among chess programs,

haha. The tiger would make win after win against this wildcardprogram.

it's
>strength and of the successes it already has had against human masters,
>obviously.

The games in dortmund were very,very poor. Lots of Kh1-g1 and Kg1-h1 moves.
brrrrr what an stupid chess.
It hurts my eyes.No more juniorgames in my life.

 It doesn't depend on a "wildcard".

Can we proof this? We don“t believe it.It is for sure that tiger is two classes
better, especialy against humans.
>
>I think this kind of talk isn't necessary.

i hope that too.
What an unverified opinion.

Thomas Lagershausen

>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl



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