Author: Duncan Stanley
Date: 13:25:54 04/21/01
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On April 21, 2001 at 14:53:49, Yvonne Gerstorff wrote: >> >>In my humble opinion, the attempt to promote Shredder 8only* by yourself and >>Bruce Moreland, has no more or less merit than any other case. All it appears to >>be doing is allowing yourselves to take a spurious moral high ground in which >>you both appear to be somehow more worthy than those 'terrible' commercials, >>whose 'low moral' levels you keep on referring to. > > >I also think that Ferret and Crafty should have been invited and that it is >understandable that Mr. Moreland and Mr. Hyatt are now very angry about this >event. > >Yvonne Sure. The could-have-been-invited list is a long one. Consistency with SMP and/or strong would include Tiger, Ferret, Crafty and some others. I suppose you have to ask what have Weiner and Friedel got that Schroeder hasn't. Then that Moreland and Hyatt haven't. Weiner and Friedel appararently have credibility in the computer chess establishment, whereas Schroeder, Hyatt and Moreland are deemed irrelevant. How else can you explain the Enrique 'extended last-minute offer' to Weiner, the Enrique 'go away, not enough time' to Schroeder and the Enrique 'I don't even have time to waste on you' to Hyatt/Moreland + others. Some are more equal than others. The business guys are well into the matters of organising these seven figure sum bean-fests, the other guys are just fodder. If you think about it, the business guys can't even program a PC, and they are allegedly extremely poor at chess as well. The programmers all allowed themselves to be stitched up by an organised establishment that really couldn't give a proverbial shit about them. The programmers are pawns. They think they are important, they gabble around on the news groups, but, in reality, they are nothing but fodder who spend so much time fighting each other, that they are just too easy to exploit. Oh, another thing, the programmers have 'friends', but these have a tendency to dump them in exchange for $5000 or the odd 15 minutes of fame. Those programmers do anything to win, but they are the big losers. Strange.
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