Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 11:28:32 07/15/02
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On July 15, 2002 at 14:05:45, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 15, 2002 at 13:55:09, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>I can't imagine why you think he would intentionally play at the biggest event >>in computer chess with less than his best version. > >Read my other posts in this thread. I have said several times that I DO NOT >think that they would do such a thing. All I am saying is that it's not >impossible, that no one knows for sure, and people are getting upset about >something they don't even know to be true. > >>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?240543 >> >>You wrote a full page rant in response to this, apparently without bothering to >>read the 2nd paragraph. >> >>-Peter > >Hmm...maybe you could be more specific about what you are talking about. I see >nothing in that paragraph regarding the issue of whether or not Quest was the >best version of Fritz. What I do see is that Frans is (apparently) on record as >saying that he always uses his best, These last two sentences are contradictory. >and that Frans (apparently) didn't have the >power to make the decisions he saw fit in the WCCC tournament. So if anything, >that discredits Frans' statement that he always uses the best, since it's >apparently someone else's call at Chessbase. As far as I know, we have no quotes >from anyone at Chessbase regarding this matter, so no one knows. > >What is so hard about understanding that no one has hard evidence about what >happened or didn't happen? I don't think there's a chance they used an inferior >version, but I don't know that, so I'm not going to go around saying, "I know >100% for sure..." about something that I don't know 100% for sure about. > >Russell OK, I see that this thread lives on only because I wrote "100% certain". I admit that I was only 99.99999572% certain. In the interest of readability, I rounded off. I think we should now let this completely uninteresting thread die. -Peter
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