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Subject: Re: CCT4: almost all the top programs are there!

Author: Kevin Strickland

Date: 08:20:52 01/03/02

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>You have no right to label it this way. I have listed my objections against this
>type of tournaments quite well. From CCT1 I remember a certain programmer to
>call another programmer a cheater. Being once a victim of such slander which has
>bugged me for years I refuse to put myself into a vulnerable position.
>
>Ed

If I remember correctly the incident that you are talking about was Vincent
Diepeveen accusing the Junior team of "interfering" in their game in CCT1.

Apparently Vincent though Junior played a "human" move. It was rediculous then,
and it is still rediculous now.

I was observing the event using a free week account on ICC, and I remember the
conversation in the channel there. Almost everyone thought Vincent was just
bitter over losing.

Please do not let that _one_ incident from not allowing Rebel from joining. I
certainly can understand that you have other duties to attend to. You are the
owner of a chess product company that has many stables to run.

I enjoyed watching Rebel and Chess Tiger battle it out for #1 at the Dutch Open
this year, and I would love to see them battle it out with the other 44
participants at the CCT4.

I do not see your reasons for not entering as excuses. I simply see them as
someone who can not due to prior obligations.

Happy New Year to you Ed. I hope all goes well for you, and your program in
2002. Rebel has been and always will be my favorite program. It is the main
reason I did not upgrade to Windows XP. I play Rebel daily, and I believe it has
improved my chess skill level more than any program out there due to it's style
of play.

+- Kevin -+



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