Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:26:10 05/19/98
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On May 18, 1998 at 11:24:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>Earlier this morning, Chris pointed out two things: (1) that I had
>made a mistake in the analysis I posted yesterday. This turned out to
>be true, in that I have an automated script that runs these tests, but
>the script assumes "PGN" input. In the game posted by Dirk, whatever
>program he used seriously violated the PGN standard by using 0-0 for
>castling (zero-zero) rather than the mandatory O-O (oh-oh). The script
>I used assumed real pgn, and basically used the wrong input command in
>Crafty (read) which silently ignores any errors (or comments) so that
>the { stuff } doesn't cause a lot of errors. But it did corrupt the
>game so that Bxa8 was not legal. The second thing he pointed out is
>that
>he's *still* incapable of carrying on a reasonable conversation, when it
>won't further his own personal agenda. There were better ways to point
>out a simple error than to make insulting remarks about the
>"qualifications"
>of folks over on CCC... but that's typical.
Sure, Chris can't help his insulting style and that's why the founders
group gave him a helping foot when he needed one. But on the other hand,
it is useful to have somebody willing to take the pain of peeping in
here to proof-read every single message posted on CCC. Who else would
want to do that and then post his corrections somewhere else, hoping
we'll notice...
Enrique
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