Author: José Carlos
Date: 00:06:20 01/16/03
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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. You could also ignore Bob's challenge if you don't like it, couldn't you? José C. >I think pretending you don't have an axe to grind with Vince will be convincing >to very few here. > > >> >> >> >> >> >>>Certainly, Vince seems to have invited this sort of thing upon himself with >>>questionable posts of his own, but I don't think that means everybody is thereby >>>entitled to likewise to Vince. I don't like the idea of the lowest common >>>denominator setting the standard of behavior for everyone else. I think instead >>>the moderators should have step in much earlier with this sort of thing and all >>>this could have been headed off. >>> >>>I'm glad you spoke up about this. I was waivering about complaining to the >>>moderators, because I assumed the complaint would be rejected and all this >>>misspent energy would go on in any case. >> >>I can't speak for the other moderators. They do their own analysis. However, >>this is just as much "on topic" as all the "Nemeth beat fritz" discussions >>except that this is a much easier claim to bust...
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