Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 14:55:08 04/19/01
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On April 19, 2001 at 17:14:06, Bruce Moreland wrote: >This Brain Games qualifying tournament is a terrible fiasco. > >If I may speculate, what I believe is going on is that Brain Games wants to >present this as a match between world champions, but the Brain Games guy >absolutely doesn't get along with David Levy, so it's not like he could do this >in conjunction with the ICCA, so he must call some program the world champion. > >The problem is that we have a world championship sanctiong body, the ICCA, the >we have all agreed to their rules for selecting a champion, including the Fritz >team and the Junior team, and we selected one, and it was neither Fritz nor >Junior. Shredder won, and we should give him his due, ESPECIALLY the >programmers, and support him as our representative until after the next WCCC. > >I wouldn't care if Brain Games just said, "We'll pick some program to play in >our match, by whatever means we choose." But they go over the line when they >attempt to call this program they pick a "champion". We already have one of >those, and we don't need another. > >The right thing to do in this case is to allow Stefan the right of first >refusal. If a champion is needed, he should be our consensus pick. If Stefan >is not allowed the opportunity to represent us as champion, everyone should be >able to figure out what to think of those who would usurp his rightly-won title. > >Bruce Moreland That sounds like a reasonable speculation about the chain of events based on the information known from various sources at this point. Just be careful that you're not labeled as someone comitting demagogy, wild guessing and issuing heavy accusations :-). Regards, Mogens
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