Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 16:24:10 04/27/98
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On April 27, 1998 at 18:47:53, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >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? More than I care for... > 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? Yup. >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? Agree again. I did my best to convince some. I wish you luck. > 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, To you. I couldn't agree more. Enrique >Djordje
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