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Subject: Re: Bad Joke?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 05:49:55 04/19/01

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On April 19, 2001 at 04:50:01, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On April 19, 2001 at 00:05:14, Chessfun wrote:

>No, you don't get it. I'm complaining about the event with or without Shredder
>because of the selection process made and nothing else. The comment on how to
>operate a program is independent of who's participating in the event. And just
>like there are rules on running a tournament, there are rules concerning
>operating a program. That should be simple enough.


Under your selection process none is qualified except Shredder.
If this is a BGN tournament what rules must they comply with?


>That's not just my opinion. They are rules on how to run tournaments, which
>would have applied since the qualifier is a tournament and not a match. It's a
>match now, but that irrelevant for the arrangements made before that was known.
>To put it in layman's terms. We have to solve a situation, where the rules are
>known for doing that. Do we make up new rules? No, we do not. Especially without
>consulting the governing body ICCA.


Again you know nothing of any exchanges between BGN and the ICCA.


>But I would like to know your selection process and why it's fair.


I already wrote the process and why it was fair.


>You don't give a damn about the development of amateur programs. Restricting the
>selection to commercial programs instead of a open tournament doesn't accomplish
>that. That is obvious I think. You're only interested in speeding up the process
>of a new commercial release. Nice try LOL.


Now you read minds?. Ok try this...what am I thinking now?.


>No, you're right, it does not. But there are rules for a reason, sanctioned by
>the organization ICCA. That is why players complain to FIDE when the make
>strange changes to the accepted format.


Or they start another organization PCA.


>Not surprisingly, since they have nothing to lose and know about the publicity
>value. They wouldn't be in contention that easily under normal circumstances, so
>why waste time complaining. But they did get irrelevant changes to the three
>month rule and a refund. One small step for Amir Ban and one giant leap for
>computer chess? No, not really.


It wouldn't have mattered to me if they didn't get any changes.
Accepting the conditions was a choice for them to make.

Sarah.







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