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Subject: Re: Petition to have Vincent Diepeveen removed from the board....

Author: Dana Turnmire

Date: 00:11:44 07/28/03

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On July 28, 2003 at 01:49:29, Peter Skinner wrote:

>I will be posting a petition on a website in the next few days to have him
>removed from this board.
>
>I think his personal attacks should stop, and I am hoping that if enough people
>sign the petition the moderators here will finally take action.
>
>Here is just a snip of his recent attacks:
>
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>Crafty is about what you make when you program for 1 day
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?308333
>
>To quote Uri: "2000 lines of C code in an evaluation is enough to get world
>champion when the knowledge is well tuned".
>
>So if that ain't typical 1100 beginners level statements then i wouldn't know!
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?308351
>
>Oh i forgot another beauty from Uri: "where do you need hashtables for, i don't
>feel the difference with Movei!"
>
>==> later it appeared he didn't manage yet to get transpositions to work in
>movei
>
>:)
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?308352
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>
>How much more does this board need to endure of the crap he pulls?
>
>Peter.

I don't wish to bring up the past but wasn't it you who accused the author of
Ruffian in no uncertain terms of being a fraud because you said it wasn't
possible for such a new engine to be that strong?  We all say things we regret
and hurting someone's feelings my not be nice but political correctness has been
taken too far in too many areas.



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