Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:23:39 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 13:58:23, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On April 30, 2001 at 05:29:12, Uri Blass wrote:
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>>On April 30, 2001 at 05:07:46, Ed Schröder wrote:
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>>>On April 30, 2001 at 03:39:34, Uri Blass wrote:
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>>>>On April 30, 2001 at 03:25:01, Bruce Moreland wrote:
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>>>>>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 is at least good that they remove wrong information from the BGN page.
>>
>>Uri
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>It does not matter if they remove that from their pages or not.
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>How is it going to be perceived by the general audience?
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>The general audience will think that it is best program against best chess
>player. You do not even need to say it, that's what people are going to believe.
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>People think: "it would not make any sense if the selected program was not the
>best in the world, so this program must be the best of all".
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>That reminds me a study that has been done recently. When they were asked from
>which country were coming the Nokia phones, a majority of american people
>answered "from Japan". Because "Nokia" sounds like a japanese word to their
>hears.
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>Oops... Maybe you were also believing that Nokia is a japanese brand? Nokia is
>from Finland.
>
>In France there is a chewing gum brand named "Hollywood". A majority of french
>people believe it comes from the US. But it's a french brand.
The pronunciation in the commercials is misleading too. Why would the French go
to all the trouble of saying: "Holy woodge shooing gome" (show the commerical to
an American and they'll confirm that's how it sounds) if they weren't forced to?
:-)
Albert
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