Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 14:46:13 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 14:34:23, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On January 15, 2003 at 12:40:58, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On January 15, 2003 at 12:05:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 15, 2003 at 11:42:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>> >>>>On January 15, 2003 at 02:36:52, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 15, 2003 at 00:38:17, George Wilson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Wow he beats the Micro's anytime he wants to! Once even played 5 computer >>>>>>simultaneously and won all five game and was blindfolded!!! >>>>> >>>>>Where is the content here, or are you just smashing Vincent? >>>>> >>>>>bruce >>>> >>>> >>>>It's inappropriate IMO. I also felt this way about: >>>> >>>>http://Daft:zmeup@www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?277105 >>>> >>>>While disguised as OT, clearly its intent was to embarass Vince. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>It's intent was _not_ to embarass anyone. It was intended to verify >>>a specific claim made by vincent. It certainly is related to computer >>>chess since Crafty is a computer chess program. Vincent made the claim >>>here more than once and I challenged him on it. If it isn't on topic, >>>then none of the GM vs computer matches have been "on topic" either, nor >>>has discussing similar things... >>> >>>If vincent is "embarassed" he has only himself to blame. _he_ made the >>>ridiculous claim... I just challenged him on it since it is one of the >>>few times where an outrageous claim by him can be directly proven false >>>by simply playing some games on a chess server. >> >> >>If the claim was "ridiculous" as you say, then there was no good reason for your >>"challenge." You would have done better by just ignoring it and letting it die a >>quiet death. >> >>I think pretending you don't have an axe to grind with Vince will be convincing >>to very few here. > >Ricardo, >you might be a great computerchess expert and I'm not, but here in the actual >discussion you simply miss the main point. Excuse me, that is simply a fact. Let >me try to explain. First of all, I think that a few here show Vincent, that they >like him above all his faults - this is a good thing and very sympathetic. >But the fault of all you who think they should defend Vincent is simply, that it >brings you into opposition with science and logic. What do you expect here, that >hundreds of readers, certainly a silent majority, should read without >contradiction what Vincent had to say about whatever? How could laymen decide >when Vincent is wrong and when he's right? <snip> When the time comes that bulletins are deleted by the moderators for technical inaccuracy, this bulletin board will have gone to the dogs. Bob D.
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