Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 07:33:32 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 00:32:37, George Speight wrote: >On August 21, 2005 at 19:43:06, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Have you noticed chessbase's silence since none of their commercial engines won >>1st or 2nd place. >>Chessbase might be offering the Author of Zappa and Fruit to go commercial :-) >> >>Jorge > >Would you like to know why chessbase, who i am not a particular fan of, ignored >this tournament. They felt the format was complete lunacy, and was not about to >offer credence to such a joke. rightly or wrongly, that was their thinking. I >am not here to defend them, jut repeating what i was told BEFORE the match >started. George The amateur programs were not frightened by it. Shredder was not frightened by it. Junior was not frighened by it. If it was lunacy, it was equally lunatic for all. But if you do not want to compete, it will always be possible to provide a reason.
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