Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 15:47:53 04/27/98
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On April 27, 1998 at 17:19:36, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >You may have a point there, providing you exclude Ed from the picture >you describe. He wrote the special program to check autoplayers and he >posted the results when nothing wrong was found. About this issue Ed and >I have a very different position, but I would never, ever, doubt the >sincerity of his motives. > >One more thing: Rebel 10 looks so good that I doubt very much Ed has any >fears regarding its performance. > >Enrique Hello Enrique! This is a very touchy subject, isn't it? I believe that Thoralf put it succintly, rhetorically asking Ed that if he felt ignored, how could he (Thoralf) could possibly feel. Therefore, regardless of the fact that Ed is sincere about his motives, his motives are definitely pregnant with unsound suspicion re the SSDF (meaning Thoralf Karlsson and a host of anonymous Swedish testers)and Frans Morsch (read the ChessBase company). Why all this? Isn't the pursuit of a good (perhaps the best of all) program an artistic striving for truth, however tiny and insignificant it may be? Why taint all this with presuppositions, suspicions, bias, and, I must say this, blatant nonsense and half-lies? If Rebel 10 is as good as you say it is, why not let the Swedish testers test it the way they usually do, painstakingly and honestly? If Nimzo98 is number one, as some say, why not let it come out on the top by playing hundreds of games? Why set up another "independent" testing committee and split up the computer chess world? The whole project of computer chess, with its magic holding its sway over all of us, should stay out of it and try to pursue the tiny truths of chess, and the essence (not so much the form or a couple of points more or less on the SSDF list) of a program will most definitely be rightly judged by the chess compuer fan, just as it is now. I am most certain that being number 1 on the SSDF does not bring in as much financial gain as many may think... Or else, if there is clear evidence, why not say out loud: This person or that organization have lied and cheated and ought to be exposed, and here is the evidence for the lies and cheating. This pastime is pure magic, and that is why most of us are here. Let us try to keep it this way. Thanks, Djordje
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