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Subject: Re: SOUR GRAPES

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 02:21:43 12/04/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 19:11:19, Roy Eassa wrote:

>Thanks, Miguel.  Indeed the term "sour grapes" was misused.  (The supporting
>text of the original "sour grapes" message did strongly imply that Christophe's
>claim was both inaccurate and biased, which is a more serious insult than
>inplying whining and a much more serious insult than implying true "sour
>grapes".)

That's more than a bit inaccurate interpretation of the original message and
guilty of equal amounts of biased nonsense. There was nothing suspect with the
match from an objective viewpoint, so I see nothing wrong with applying the term
"sour grapes" to the responses by various persons. And questioning objectivity
in this case doesn't constitute an insult. This doesn't imply that the testing
is optimal, but the assumption of identical testing conditions for the matches
played on the machines in question.

Whether the CPU-unrelated settings are identical on the machines used by the
SSDF is an interesting question. And vastly more important than one
insignificant match and various types of hindsight. Not to mention silly
bickering from both sides of the fench without substance.

Regards,
Mogens



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