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Subject: Re: How to prevent suspicions and other bad feelings in tournament CC?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:58:08 07/25/02

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On July 25, 2002 at 17:30:37, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On July 25, 2002 at 13:21:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On July 25, 2002 at 12:34:06, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On July 25, 2002 at 11:24:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 24, 2002 at 23:13:54, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 24, 2002 at 14:09:05, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>For all of you who want to study the mentioned article, here is the URL
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://f50.parsimony.net/forum200318/messages/1063.htm
>>>>>
>>>>>Rolf didn't write this.  That had to have been written by someone inside the
>>>>>founder's group, and anyone who has been paying attention knows the style of the
>>>>>author.
>>>>>
>>>>>bruce
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I agree.  I am _certain_ about who wrote it.  Although it could have been
>>>>in cooperation with Rolf.  Since the obvious author and Rolf sort of
>>>>"reconnected" later in r.g.c.c...
>>>>
>>>>:)
>>>
>>>Bob,
>>>is this now the new style in CCC? You as a moderator you speculate or others
>>>insinuate, that I wrote such an article?
>>
>>Why don't you re-read what I wrote.  I _specifically_ said that I knew who
>>wrote it, although it was possible they collaborated with you in doing so."
>>
>>If I know who it was, and I suspect he could have collaborated with you to do
>>so, then how could you have been the author?  You collaborated with yourself?
>
>
>Bob, please try to control your tendency to bash me and my language as a
>foreigner. This is regarded as most impolite.

I did not bash you, _or_ your language.  I pointed out that I did not say
what you claimed I said...


>
>Second remark: would you please be so kind to re-read what I wrote? I
>_specifically_ said "You as a moderator you speculate".

Sorry, but I don't write posts as a moderator.  I write here as a member
of CCC.  I respond as a moderator when someone complains via moderator
email to the three of us...



> And then I began to talk
>about others. Does it mean - in American English - that automatically the two
>activities were connected?

In the same sentence, yes it does.  In the same paragraph, yes it does.

> With speculating I meant exactly your speculation
>about my possible co-authorship or assistance of some sort.


I said "collaboration".  Even if you didn't directly get involved in the
post in question, you were collaborating with "the author" a year or two
ago when things erupted in r.g.c.c about the general subject the author
complains about in "the post".




> Is it a good
>role-model for a moderator to toss such wild speculations against other people?
>And your only evidence is the observation that some "ROlf sort of"
>did something on rgcc?


I don't know and I don't care.  I am not a moderator 24 hours a day.  I am a
moderator when someone complains.  I don't change my writing style when I am
"in" and "out"...  I have been a moderator three times now.  I have been a
non-moderator for two periods of time as well...




>
>Third remark: can't you see that this is by far not computerchess?

What?  the false history about CCC?  CCC _is_ about computer chess..




>
>
>>Try again...
>
>Forth remark: please do not seduce me to do something forbidden. ;)
>
>
>>
>>>
>>>Show me one single part of data in that article that could have been made or
>>>even influenced or my idea!
>>
>>Oh, the part about Ed.  Etc...
>
>Fifth remark: How could I know something about Ed and his business? You are
>completely misleaden, also, when I have made peace with Ed since long. Would I
>write against a brother? Does it make sense to you? About etc I have no other
>news actually.


I didn't say "you know something about Ed and his business."  I said you had
a lot to say about Ed and his business a couple of years ago, and going backward
for a few years.  Nobody said that just because you chose to talk about him,
that you had any idea what you were talking about...





>
>So in sum, could you please come back to the standards of the charta for CCC and
>talk about CC and the different meta problems we talked about?

Sorry... I am thru talking in circles about possible cheating...  and the
lack of solutions to same...




>
>>
>>>
>>>Most of these details, what who did for the business, what he did not, what who
>>>did when and after what "band-waggoning" (quote from the article) I did _not_
>>>know! And could not know - because I was not a member of the specific groups.
>>
>>I don't disagree.
>>
>>>
>>>So I ask you if this is honest if you tear me into such a topic.
>>
>>I didn't tear you into anything.  However, you and the "author" did do a lot
>>of collaboration/back-patting/attaboying over in r.g.c.c a while back.  Recall
>>that???
>
>No, I do not. Listen, I am absolutely independant, I'm not working for or with
>someone. "attaboying"?


Attaboy...  as in "attaboy Chris, you tell 'em how they wronged me..."




>You mean the terrorist Atta? Look, some strange German
>members of CC have just "found" out that I were a dangerous mole and a "steered
>underground assassinate" (Pordzik) for ChessBase or CSS, the journal. I'm only
>happy that nobody here called me Bin Laden or Mephisto yet. Or Son of Sam, or
>how was the name of the motion picture? Thanks to you and all my other friends
>here in CCC.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>You could do a way better job if you finally presented the data from Crafty in
>>>the axb5 position of DB2 in 1997. Did you read the results from HIARCS 8? No
>>>narrowing after 30 hours.
>>
>>So?  "no computer can" doesn't mean _every_ computer must before the statement
>>can be proven.  Only one is enough.  We already have fritz.  And with Crafty
>>being about .08 apart on the two moves, that is close enough so that if it
>>played either I wouldn't immediately think that someone had helped it...
>
>I see. I'm a bit confused because usually you present the output of your Crafty.
>Something doesn't fit here. What if Crafty would seperate the two moves in
>deeper modes.

I would report that.  I ran it for 36 hours before the machine crashed.  I
started it again but had to stop it as I have students using that cluster for
final projects that are due next week.  When I get good analysis I will again
try to post it...





>
>Could you give me the reference where you got fritz? Today we must check very
>carefully, you know. We accepted results without gamescores, but sometimes we
>must make some controls unexpectedly.

Search back thru _this_ thread.  Someone else ran it for quite a time before
they got both moves with identical scores.  Wasn't me.  I don't own any
commercial program at all...





>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>In sum - could you come back on-topic and leave speculations and ad-hominem
>>>insults to others as a moderator? You cn try what you want - I would never
>>>violate the charta of this forum, so it's senseless to provoke me.
>>
>>
>>I'm not provoking _anybody_.  But then I am not engaged in the things you like
>>to do either.  You _try_ to provoke so you can claim "foul".  You try to mislead and twist things.
>
>Insulting mode again?


There _is_ a difference between "insulting" and "truth".



> Please! This is very wrong. Or are you so unhappy about
>the HIARCS 8 results for the axb5 position that you must spread ad hominems?





I'm not happy or unhappy about _any_ results of any program.  Why would I
be???

>Show me where I wrote false ideas, comments, conclusions, questions and
>statements, but do not insult here.
>
>>
>>As elvis said, it is all in your history...
>
>Until yesterday I had no problem with Elvis Pordzik. Suddenly he had this crazy
>idea with the "mole", you could read "steered underground assassinator". Are you
>really taking him for serious? In hours or days he will take back the nonsense.
>And then? You know what a famous programmer told me long ago in 1996? "The whole
>computerchess business is full of paranoia." Until now I couldn't find the
>reason why. I think this is not so bad in other sports. Like in CC they all must
>have secrets but then people change from one team to the other and have new
>secrets.
>
>I have a really serious question for you.
>
>Could it be that the reason for the special situation in CC is the fact that
>it's simply not possible, as you told me more than once, to control the output
>and to prevent any form of cheating?

Why has it taken you this long to get this point?  I have only said it 1000
times by now...


> For you in the 60s this was simply a
>knowledge with no consequences. But today?
>Have you any idea how we could establish a new relaxed spirit of fun and
>competition with a minimum of control techniques, say coming from a commission
>of some experts who visit big events? Or is even this all in vain?

Preventing cheating is impossible.  Proving that it happened can not be
done in 100% of the cases.  Proving that it did not happen is totally
impossible.

>
>Could you give us your view on such questions with a look-back on historical
>events?
>


Which "historical events"???



>
>Rolf Tueschen



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