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Subject: Re: I doubt that List is a crafty clone

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 14:26:31 12/01/03

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It is very normal that both sides have not made public statements that are final
because the situation is still in flux.
IGCA is too shrewd to make litigious, volatile remarks without evidence and they
have what they want already.
And if Fritz Reul is very involved with his exams, then his remarks will come
when he has time to make them.

On December 01, 2003 at 15:51:08, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On December 01, 2003 at 15:28:55, Volker Pittlik wrote:
>
>>On December 01, 2003 at 14:21:32, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>
>>...
>>>Did the programmer of List comment to what happened by now? It surely would be
>>>interesting to hear his POV here.. Staying silent can easily make people think
>>>that he has something to hide, which is not good IMHO. (disclaimer: I don't
>>>think that, but I can imagine that others do, just my opinion)
>>
>>I assume you speak german. The only statement I found is here:
>>
>>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/84304.htm
>>
>>>
>>>(b)
>>>Thomas Mayer said in a post here in CCC that the participants in Graz saw the
>>>"circumstantial evidence" and he said that it definitely would look very
>>>suspicious to him. Of course, that doesn't mean that it _is_ a clone of
>>>anything, but it seems important that other people can see this evidence too to
>>>make their opinion.
>>
>>Also only in german:
>>
>>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/84330.htm
>>
>>As far as I understood there have been a test showing that an older version of
>>List delivered a similar evaluation as Crafty at ply 1.
>>
>>But as long as we don't have any knowledge of what really happend everything is
>>wild guessing.
>>
>>Volker
>>
>>
>>>
>>>If there's an agreement that all involved people don't spread this
>>>circumstantial evidence, that's OK too. But it would be nice to know that.
>>>Otherwise it feels a bit like being in the mist.
>>>
>>>IMHO. YMMV. Etc
>>>
>>>Sargon
>
>
>Many thanks for the links, Volker!
>
>It seems to me that both sides play hide and seek and it's just impossible to
>get real information from anyone. I don't really understand why, but the only
>thing I can reasonably do from here is to forget about the subject, because even
>if I _wanted to_, I simply can't get enough data to not speculate.
>
>I find that unfortunate _from both sides_, but it's their choice, not mine.
>Should I ever say something about this incident in ICC again, please remind me
>that I promised to never talk about this issue anymore. :)
>
>Sargon



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