Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:20:03 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 14:00:06, David Rasmussen wrote: >On January 15, 2002 at 12:06:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >>Just remember that Vincent's behavior is based on a lot of _past_ >>_experience_. He has competed in events where there were "crafty >>clones". Bionic Impakt was one example. Others include voyager, >>le petite and others. He is naturally suspicious of a new program >>where the author is unknown and has not been asking lots of questions >>here and in usenet newsgroups or on chess servers. >> >>It turns out that while he might be wrong in this case, he has been >>right in several in the past. That tends to color your thinking a bit >>in such cases... > >The problem is not that he's suspicious. The problem is that he is arrogant and >insulting. He could have just said: "Let's keep our eyes open for the >possibility that this program is a clone etc.". Instead he comes with wild >unsupported accusations. He might be right, but he certainly doesn't prove it >here. > >/David It apparently comes from some sort of past interaction with this person. We hardly know all the details. Vincent has sent me a long email with some background information, so I could see things from his perspective. Whether his perspective is right or wrong in this case is another matter. But he was at least right to "ask", something others failed to do in past events, which led to a lot of acrimony...
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