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Subject: Re: List disqualified?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 14:34:44 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 17:33:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 17:24:31, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On November 27, 2003 at 17:20:00, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>>
>>>On November 27, 2003 at 15:41:47, Mike Hood wrote:
>>>
>>>>So List has been disqualified by the ICGA on the suspicion of being a Crafty
>>>>clone? Maybe Fritz Reul looked over Bob Hyatt's shoulder at the free source
>>>>code, but I doubt it's a clone, even in its roots. The playing style is too
>>>>different. But in the absence of an official statement by List's author, I'd be
>>>>interested to hear what Bob himself thinks about it.
>>>
>>>Just logged on. Read your post and was nonplussed.  Who said that?  Fritz Reul's
>>>List actually a Crafty clone?  Come on, give me a break...
>>>
>>>Question for you:  who said that List was disqualified?  I just saw the 9th
>>>round pairings:  List is in there.  Enlighten me, please.
>>>
>>>Djordje
>>
>>This is the story:
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1330
>>
>>Andrew
>
>And why do we believe a single word of it?
>Is there an evidence from some source that is not chessbase?
>
>I suspect that all of it is a joke of some criminal who got to the chessbase
>sire without their permission.
>
>
>Uri

Vincent posted a short message on ICC saying that that List had been banned
until 2006. So I think it's genuine.

Andrew



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