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Subject: Re: I'm not Trolling But.......

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:44:21 07/21/03

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On July 21, 2003 at 16:02:23, Sherry Washington wrote:

>I'm amazed that everyone here seems to take the word of Edward nemeeth and kurt
>U  for gospel, I mean does anyone know these people personaly?

We probably know them a lot better than we know you.

> Why do they
>deserve so much credibility? If I post a game and say that I won, without any
>eyewitness to say that i didn't take any moves back will the game be taken for
>fact? I am not saying these gentlemen are lying, but it does seem strange that
>these two can accomplish better results then the hundreds of public verified
>games we have with grandmasters and masters.

I don't think the games are fakes.

>I Have several master rated friends
>and they get slaughtered everygame, one is rated 2319 and hasn't even drew out
>of seven games at 60/ 0 and that was when i had only a 1 gig processor.

Apparently, he doesn't know how to play computers.

> All i
>can say is that I am very sceptical of these gentelman and think their games
>should be taken with a grain of salt.

Take them with all the salt you want.

> Kasparov himself recently said that these
>people who are claiming wins against the top programs are full of crap.

It happens.

I don't think that anticomputer players win all the time or even draw all the
time.  I think they post their good results and do not post their bad results.

Be that as it may, I think that humans do beat computers from time to time.



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