Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:30:38 11/03/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 15:26:26, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On November 03, 2003 at 13:29:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>A last thought that you might well consider. Vincent is proud of his connection >>>with the late Louwman who was famous for his extreme impolite verbal jabs and >>>uppercuts. Louwman was a Dutch Jew IMO who lost many family members by the >>>Nazis. And he had to live his last years with extreme pain due to illnesses. I >>>do not excuse Vincent, but knowing a particular background can often aat least >>>explain a bit something seemingly outrageous. Please let's not be too rigid in >>>condemning such a motivated guy. Just give him a smiling eye in the memory of >>>Jan Louwman. Thanks. >> >>Remember that I was not a fan of Jan Louwman. I saw significant misbehavior >>at ACM events, with respect to the "move now" button, which is _not_ allowed >>in computer chess events... > >Let's forget about his personal guilt now he's gone but let's keep it in mind >for a record of possible cheats. - But as a general moral: couldn't it be that >you can handle the fact of possible cheats better (and without any paranoia just >because you know too well what could be possibly done) than others? When I came >into the scene one of the first informations was about the existence of whole >lot of paranoia in computerchess. I didn't bring it up. But I always thought >that information is the only remedy against that syndrome. > >Rolf Let me be clear. This is not a case of "I hate him because he cheated." It is more a case of "I trusted him (and everyone else) to act honorably at these events, because _I_ always did." I made mistakes. I got killed for it. I lost a game on time where I could have hit the <return> key and made it move instantly, in a won position. We (my team of three, myself, gower and nelson) simply didn't do that. When we caught someone else doing it, it left a taste of distrust that won't ever go away... BTW, to avoid any of this "are you sure?" stuff, we caught it on video tape. There was _no_ doubt. And we (my team) were not the only ones to notice it.
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