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Subject: Re: Please differentiate !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:48:58 08/23/04

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On August 23, 2004 at 11:38:15, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On August 23, 2004 at 11:07:06, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2004 at 10:55:55, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Not this way around please - you made the assumption that nothing could be
>>>really said yet because we all didn't know.
>>
>>Incorrect - I never posted anything like that. Count me out of this discussion,
>>this is getting ridiculous.
>
>
>Ridiculous is what you pretended. I quote:
>
>[quote BEGIN]
>>I am disappointed that you don't differentiate between perfect proofs
>>and rumours. That discredits the wonderful work of Paul H. in this case.
>>Best,
>>Matthias.
>
>[here is what Peter Berger answered:]
>That's not reasonable, Matthias. For an ordinary user of chessprograms a
>baseless accuse and a perfect proof will look very similar, if presented in a
>similar way. For example a non-programmer might be able to judge whether a
>conclusion supports the accuse of cloning, but not if the conclusion itself is
>correct. Just think of a perfect proof in Suaheli :) [quote END]
>
>
>That was your message, where you pretended that we couldn't know because exact
>proof looked like "baseless accuse". This is unbelievable! It insinuates that
>Paul and all the real experts here would want to say nonsense. But to the
>contrary they agreed with Paul. Therefore - I said - it was unneccessary to
>remain sceptical for all the lays. In that forum here the experts watch what is
>being said in such troubling topics. Of course you want to run away because you
>are surprised what a nonsense you had implied in your quoted message above. The
>same even came a second time from your side in a direct message addressed to me,
>hence I told you the whole truth.
>
>In general of course you are correct. Lays can't decide anything in whatever
>field!! But where that has been told? At least not here. Here the experts and
>also Bob in the first place have spoken. Perhaps you are confusing as if this is
>the same case as in Graz. But it isn't. Here the proof was given without source
>code in need. It was even proven that the LIST from Graz was not a Crafty copy.
>Impossible, because no Bitboards. Just read Paul here.

1)List from graz was not tested but only List4.61
2)List4.61 does not use bitboards.
It prove that there is a big difference between List and Crafty but it does not
prove that List does not use parts of Crafty.

Uri



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