Author: Mike S.
Date: 10:37:19 12/24/03
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On December 24, 2003 at 07:02:59, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >>>(...) >You take the arguments following your actual needs. (...) >Your personal interest in mind I can well understand why you defend the >decisions in Graz because commercially (...) You manage to insult people on Dec. 24th. I don't have any "needs" or "personal interest" regarding this. I gain nothing and I loose nothing, no matter how these things are decided or how the sales figures of Shredder or Fritz looks like. I'm an not an experienced participant of computer chess championships, but have expressed my honest opinions from my viewpoint. I don't demand that everybody must share my opinion, but I demand that everyboday accepts that this was really my honest view of it. Maybe it isn't based on so much information as it would be desireable (i.e., I don't even find any detailed ICGA tournament rules on their homepage). Basically my opinion about that was based upon the fact, that "3-fold repetion" is different from "I claim a draw by 3-fold repetition" If you refuse to take notice that these 2 sentences which may appaear in program messages, have different meanings, than it's you leaves the honest part of the discussion. That the tradition, and an (I guess unwritten) rule in computerchess competitions says that these mean the same, is obviously not optimal and has to be put more precisely into rules and program's message text. You understand that there are repetitions which the operator should be *informed* about, but where it makes no sense to claim (because i.e. the opponent forced it to his advantage, and I'd be winning otherwise)? How do you *distinguish* then, info or claim?? Btw. I'm not at all interested in defending ICGA decisions either. I've even harshly critized the List disqualification. I believe that after such a scandal of incompetently misused organisation power, the official staff should retire. So much about my "defense" of ICGA. I hope the NACCA can give a better example of how to handle all that. Regards, M.Scheidl
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