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Subject: Re: moderation (Objection and explanation of the term cooked)

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 15:42:55 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 18:15:09, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 16, 2002 at 17:38:42, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>On September 16, 2002 at 17:01:13, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On September 16, 2002 at 15:53:06, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>[snip]
>>>>NB please that I did never say he faked or cheated data. All I said was: These
>>>>30 games including the five games I posted could_not_ show something relevant
>>>>about this styled Rebel.
>>>
>>>What then, was the meaning of the thread title:
>>>"How people could detect if a game was cooked?"
>>>
>>>Sounds like an accusation to me.  Certainly in the context of the material you
>>>posted, I do not see how it could be interpreted otherwise.
>>>[snip]
>>
>>I'm a bit astonished by such a tone here, Dann. Now I must explain the English
>>meaning to you. It's sad.
>>
>>To answer your question I remind you of the point that I originally _thought_
>>that Thorsten posted or quoted the games, because they should "prove" or show
>>that the created new style played "stronger" than the default version. My
>>question was if such games, my 5 examples, could do that successfully. I thought
>>'No'! If you doubt my original opinion then why these games were posted at all?
>>They stood in context of Thorsten's claim that his style was stronger against
>>Shredder ans so on. But the games don't prove it.
>>
>>I found that the games contained a cook against Shredder. Explanation: because
>>the Shredder book contained the weak line. What should this prove about the
>>Macheide style??? Nothing IMO.
>>
>>I asked a scientifically interesting (for me!!) question how people, I meant
>>all, could detect such cookes games in testing. Because it made the tests weaker
>>by definition! (Would you now doubt my scientific interest I showed from my
>>first posting on? Either about SSDF or the DB2 team.)
>>
>>Note that I did NOT think that _Thorsten_ cooked these games!!!!
>>
>>They are cooked because of the opening book. And I thought I had made a valuable
>>_discovery_. Just by playing through the lines. I found the examples.
>>
>>Please do not lay bad intentions into my mouth when they definitely are not
>>there!
>>
>>Of course I thought that it was a bad thing for Thorsten to post these games,
>>but I did never even _insinuate_ that he tried to _cheat_ with them. For what
>>purpose should he have done it???
>>
>>I repeat I found the cooks and asked a question "how people could detect such
>>cooks". Please stop pushing me in corners where my honest questions should look
>>like the insults, Thorsten read in them. There are no insults!
>>
>>Please give a short correction here if it's understood by now what the meaning
>>was. Thank you.
>>
>>It's important for me because Thorsten already wrote about my intentions to
>>destroy and so on. This is most insultive for me.
>
>Perhaps much of the problem is with language interpretation.  I certainly have
>not read all the messages in this thread nor do I intend to (as they are
>relatively uninteresting to me).
>
>It seemed from the context of what I read that you were accusing Thorsten of
>something.  Perhaps if I had read all the messages in the thread, I might have
>thought otherwise.
>
>As far as breaking someone else's book, I think it is a very good idea and
>everyone ought to do it.  After all, that advances the theory of chess doesn't
>it?  And the best time to do the breaking is always "right now" so that it
>occurs during testing and not during a contest.
>
>I do wish that you could take whatever sort of a squabble you have with Thorsten
>to private email.  Being intrinsically lazy, I don't want to have to deal with
>it.

That would be the best solution. But take my word that my 5 examples were not
motivated because I have something against Thorsten. But I can't assure you for
the reverse.

Rolf Tueschen



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