Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:42:30 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 Nonsense. Had I been invited I would not have attended. My response would have said: "thank you very much for considering me. But in 1977 a group of us formed an organization with the responsibility of handling computer chess competitions as its main charter point. At present, the current world computer chess champion and the current world microcomputer chess champion, titles awarded by the ICCA after a significant tournament competition, are both held by the program named 'shredder'. As a result, out of my respect for the organization I helped form back then, I believe that Shredder is the only entrant that should be considered. If you prefer to wait for the next WCCC or WMCCC event (probably the WCCC since the WMCCC does not allow multiple-cpu machines) then that would also be a perfectly reasonable method to choose the challenger. But in any case, the ICCA is _the_ organization that should be relied on to handle the selection process, just like FIDE or PCA does this for the human players. Bob Hyatt" If that sounds "pompous" then you are reading it wrong and you don't know me very well. There have been other such cases that I thought were wrongly handled. IE Cray Blitz was the 1983 and 1986 WCCC champion, yet it was not chosen to participate in the annual Fredkin events except for two cases. The selection process was "outside" the ICCA. And it was wrong, IMHO. I don't see how two wrongs will make this "right". And this time it isn't my turn. It is SMK's...
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