Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 06:41:45 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 07:37:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 16, 2002 at 06:51:44, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Allow me a little nonsense counter example, imagine your way back, just written >>Ferret, your first tournament, you are a non-name and new in CCC and you are >>welcomed: Bruce Moreland is a cheater, his program Ferret is just another clone. >> >>That's all the accusation says, no further information, no data to back it up. >> >>You say it is no personal attack, I say it is. >> >>Things change if data is produced with the intention to proof the accusation, >>the lack off is just slander. > >Vincent's 'proof' was that 'Jef Kaan can't program at all' > >That may have been an overbroad statement, but Tony Werten >confirmed elsewhere in the thread that Jef had said in the past >that programming a chess engine is too difficult for him. > >The account of this person's program has a high rating on ICC. > >I think that is sufficient reason to make it a reasonable >accusation, rather than a personal attack. There are other ways to do it than nailing someone to the scaffold in a public forum AND emailing half the world about it. Maximum damage policy, I would say. Bas. Bas.
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