Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:23:28 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 05:07:46, Ed Schröder wrote: >On April 30, 2001 at 03:39:34, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On April 30, 2001 at 03:25:01, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On April 30, 2001 at 02:55:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> >>>>The same applies for Nimzo, Hiarcs, Gandalf... Did Enrique ask them if they had >>>>a SMP version that could compete? >>>> >>>>I know the answer because Enrique told me in email. >>>> >>>>HE DID NOT ASK THEM EITHER. >>>> >>>>What other evidence do you need that the selection process has been arbitrary? >>> >>>I have an SMP program that has competed publicly and finished 2nd in the last >>>open hardware world championship, and they haven't even acknowledged my >>>existence as an author of something even vaguely worthy to play in this. So >>>you've been treated better than I have. They knew all about me and chose to >>>treat me as if I do not exist. >>> >>>It's water under the bridge though. They've insulted more or less everyone with >>>this selection process, it seems clear that they are set on doing it how they >>>want to do it, they got the result they wanted, and nothing is going to change. >>> >>>The biggest insult is to Stefan, who can't get any respect no matter how many >>>times he wins the WMCCC and WCCC. >> >>Stefan got something for winning WMCCC and WCCC. >>I believe that he sold more copies of his program thank to winning these >>copmpetition. >> >>I do not see it as a clear thing that Shredder is the program that should be >>invited to a match against kramnik because there was no agreement before WCCC >>that the winner of the competition is going to be invited to play a match >>against kramnik. >> >>Uri > > >Come on, at fisrt the match was presented as WC vs WC. Later it was changed >to best computer vs Kramnik and now even this info is also removed from the >BGN page. > >Ed It has been a debacle from day 1. This is often what happens when such "ideas" are created in a back-room somewhere without any public discussion until _after_ all the details are firmed up.
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