Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:54:27 09/17/98
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On September 17, 1998 at 02:07:58, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On September 16, 1998 at 01:40:31, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>I think that, Cstal has always won your tournaments - but always lost others >>tournaments - mysterious... >> >>Jouni > >I don't think this comment was necessary. Thorsten usually says exactly what he >thinks, not couching it in comfortable terms, but at least you know his opinion. >I have seen nothing to indicate he would attempt to purposefully change the >outcome of a tournament to suit his views. On the contrary, I have seen him >change his views to match the results of his tests. For example, a little over a >year ago he was quite vociferous in his distaste for Crafty. After Bob helped >show him how to set it up properly, and with a faster processor to work with, >his tests changed and so did his attitude toward Crafty. I know of no tournament >result from him in which CSTal was the winner, and in fact have often read his >complaints posted about bugs that caused it to hang a queen, or whatever else. >Perhaps the new version is better than the CD version, which he has said is >"trash", and full of bugs, and should be replaced with CSTBlack. In any case, >what he says is his opinion from his tests, and not the other way around. He may >never be a diplomat, but he is an honest man, from my view. > >kp I totally agree. Most of us know Thorsten's prejudices about Fritz, for example, and I don't see a problem with that. We all have our "favorites" and we all have our "can't stand it's" as well. And we can discuss both quite seriously. But I've seen *nothing* that suggests to me that he would try to "fix" a result, just to make a point. I think it would be too easy to catch such behavior and he would lose all credibility. When I report results for Crafty here, I have to be equally careful, because *anyone* can download the latest and try it out. If it doesn't do as I say, it would be trivial to prove... Let 'im continue the tournament. We don't get to see many 40/2 computer games with all these programs involved. I'm interested. I'm sure most everyone else is as well... CSTal might have been lucky so far, it might be very strong, or anything in between...
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