Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 14:44:48 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 17:34:44, Andrew Williams wrote: >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 Just to clarify, I'm not saying that the REASON for List being disqualified is genuine; I'm saying that the *report* on Chessbase is genuine. In other words, ICGA *did* disqualify List. I'm not saying that they were right to do so. Furthermore, IMHO, there's also no reason to believe that Vincent was the one who protested. That just sounds like idle speculation to me... Andrew
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