Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 07:38:04 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 09:42:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >No. If you look at _my_ history with Cray Blitz you will see that I >discovered that we played better with 1. d4 as white. We had some >reasonable positional knowledge that helped in the more strategic >openings that arise from 1. d4. I didn't do it because I thought I >was hurting my chances of winning... I did it because I thought it >_helped_. > >I assume Jeroen did the same thing. Perhaps some of his 1. e4 lines >led Sjeng into positions it didn't like or understand or play very well. >It would be natural to try to avoid them. > >I have this horrible tendency to believe that most people do their >very best when helping others. I can't imagine him intentionally >preparing a book for Sjeng that would decrease its chances of winning. > >Now if you want to argue that one book author should not be allowed to >prepare an opening book for three different programs, there I agree 100%. >I can't contribute significant pieces of code to three different programs >and have them all play in ICCA events. I don't see why someone can >contribute three significant opening books (which can go as deep as 20 moves >in a game that may only last 40 moves). The ICCA is completely out of >touch with common sense here, mainly because of $$$ I assume. > >What is happening is wrong. But it isn't wrong because Jeroen is trying to >make Sjeng lose. It is wrong because one person is helping _three_ programs >to win. That is bogus. The ICCA _knows_ it is bogus. But they let it >continue, for reasons only they have. Yes. What you said makes perfect sense. I had problems understanding that: I had always thought of Jeroen as the Rebel book author -- now you see him as the Tiger and Deep Sjeng book author as well. I am not saying that it is dishonest on his part -- but it definitely puts him in a split personality kind of position. Furthermore, I believe that he simply can't be as successful as he might be creating only one book. Strange in my opinion. And difficult to understand. Djordje
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