Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:06:47 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 18:10:30, Ingo Bauer wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 17:19:19, John Dahlem wrote: > >>On May 02, 2001 at 16:48:09, Ingo Bauer wrote: >> >>>On May 02, 2001 at 16:02:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On May 02, 2001 at 08:16:34, Ingo Bauer wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hello Graham >>>>> >>>>>On May 02, 2001 at 07:50:21, Graham Laight wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>* send a copy of the commercial version of Deep Fritz to Kramnik. Why not? He >>>>>>can very easily obtain a copy anyway - so sending it will do no harm. Meanwhile, >>>>>>you can work on the REAL program that's ACTUALLY going to play him! >>>>> >>>>>>you must win fairly - you can't risk your reputation >>>>> >>>>>Do you think that these two points fit together? >>>>> >>>>>Regards >>>>>Ingo >>>> >>>> >>>>I suppose it depends on your definition of "fair". >>>> >>>>:) >>>> >>>>Sounds good to me of course... >>> >>>Hi >>> >>>I don't want to discuss how the Kramnik vs. Computer Match was aranged. I do not >>>like it at all. But they have a contract with a certain meaning. If i see the >>>meaning (spirit, sorry my english) i think that giving not the final engine IS >>>unfair. >>> >>>Ingo >> >>I very very much disagree. Getting the final engine is unfair. You are giving >>the best player in the world 3 months to play as much as he wants against >>EXACTLY what he will be going up against. That is incredibly unfair. Kramnik I >>think will crush it under such conditions unless the Fritz team does something >>sneaky. >> >>John > >Yes i totaly agree with you!!! But that was not my point. >Both sides signed a conract in witch they agreed to certain terms. One of this >is that Kramnik gets the final Engine tree month in advance. Giving him a false >Engine is breaking a contract. Very abstract thinking, but logic. So, it is >unfair to give the false Engine because of that contract. > >In fact i had not signed that contract but Chessbase, Franz Morsch or Amir Ban >saw the oportunities they may have of it. Thats all. I remember that the contract was changed and updates are going to be allowed but only if kramnik also gets them. I also think that there are contracts when not breaking the contract is unfair. If I sign a contract that I have to do a crime then not breaking the contract is unfair. Uri > >Ingo
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