Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 03:06:11 08/23/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 21:29:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: >No, otherwise you would never see such strong programs show up with less than a year's effort behind them... That is a topic I'm interested in for years now. I think RUFFIAN is a good example. Tell me if I'm wrong but for me it's clear that programming students but also older people have something in their mind that cries for bombastic and sensational appearance. Science is totally different. Just take the manuscripts of Einstein's early theories. I also see a social aspect. A chessprogram needs at least a couple of people who test it and who want to use it. Here we have a group of people with highest suggestibility. In the amateur scene you can feel that at the instant. These people wait for the smashing puncher who then kills all the highest ranked commercial programs just like the religious believers who wait for the end of the World. This again has a destructive ingrediant. Combined with wishful thinking the test results soon prove the superiority of the new engines. In a tournament somewhere the heroe wins my big margins. Sorry, I'm a lay but I am certain that this is all a fata morgana because this program is still so new for the rest of the participants. Months later the program dissapears - like RUFFIAN. - But - not so long afterwards we see FRUIT or ZAPPA. I know for sure that ZAPPA won't win in the next WCCC when SMK is well prepared again. Not that I knew how he does it all the time. This time at least he wasn't well prepared at all. What I want to say is this. If you had won the tournament, you would simply continue the talking like before. You would answer questions. But you are also a scientist. I wished that some of the newcomers would step into your shoes and would continue the more scientifical issue rather than the route of mysteries and fairy tales. If you ask me, behind all these spooky results we have interests and also money, sorry for the inconveniences from that line, which support such one-day-flies. It's what the Brits are used to in their massmedia. If Iraq becomes a real pain then suddenly we can read over months about a Piano Phantom who allegedly had lost his mind. (It's always the spin doctors who exploit such issues. In politics and also computerchess.)
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