Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:13:54 12/09/98
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I think both of you are attacking, but that is not what I want to say. I do not think the people in this tournament are idiots, and I do not remember anyone saying you were. But I do think and I think it is fair commment that you say all the people there were experts, well an expert is someone who has inside and out knowledge of a specific subject. And you stated some some people did not get the programs until a few days before. So they could not fine tune the engines. Well most people who fine tune their chess engines for a specific program take months to play over games and to change a setting here and there. So your so called experts are experts in what ? Playing chess, and playing chess on some computer programs. These days it is hard to say someone is a expert in computers (which I hear so often), but more like they are expert in a specific field of computers and not the whole field. I doubt that your tournament had any experts there, because I believe apart from the programmer or a person representing the programmer for that engine. then there are none unless they have spents months or longer testing and finding out every little detail of that program can be called an expert. You seem to try to prove your point, but then you shoot yourself in the foot by saying something that proves your comments wrong. I mean after years of testing their is still debate about which setting are stronger for Chessmaster programs. You might have had very itelligent people in the tournament but use the word expert with some degree of respect in regard to using it in the right way, and not just because someone you consider to be a smart chess player and may know how to use a computer say they are an expert. And the reason why these comments will go on after your tournament is because everyone else apart from you seem to think that on no matter what hardware you use in the end the results will be correct Well I would like to see Fritz on a pentium 90 win against CM6K on a PII 450 over say 20 games. If you think that then your are living in fantasy land, and no wonder you call the other people there experts, bacause with comments like that, everyone else in the world would be an expert in comparison to you as well.
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