Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 23:24:40 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 17:31:28, Ritter Rost wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 16:33:01, Larry Proffer wrote: > >>On May 02, 2001 at 15:12:16, Ritter Rost wrote: >> >>>Thanks, Duncan, sounds absolutely plausible to me. >>> >>>Probably ChessBase didn't even have to pay huge sponsoring money to BGN to avoid >>>the random amateur programs. Instead they simply introduced them to CCC and >>>said: "Look, here you can read how chess programmers communicate. If anything >>>goes wrong or if they don't like your contracts, you'll have open letters, >>>e-mail wars, conspiration theories and all hell loose against you. Now do you >>>want a professional partner or not?" >> >>I agree, Matthias, absolutely. >> >>Except the all hell isn't against Chessbase. From anyone. Chessbase behaved >>predictable, reasonable, sensible. >> >>Questions arise only on the independant expert advice. How could their advice >>lead to a two-Chessbase program contest for the Kramnik prize. Didn't they >>realise German TV viewers would again have to sit through several hours of >>Matthias and Frederic instead of watching Star Trek? > >That threat certainly was overlooked, but for a change we might see them wearing >Kefiya and Agal. Kefiya and Agal? Please explain in-joke being as wot I am out of this particular loop.
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