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Subject: RE: MY APOLOGY

Author: Thom Perry

Date: 17:08:14 02/24/99

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On February 24, 1999 at 08:23:33, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>On February 24, 1999 at 05:50:33, Thom Perry wrote:
>
>>On February 23, 1999 at 18:58:22, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On February 23, 1999 at 13:44:44, Dan Kiski wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 23, 1999 at 11:22:27, Thom Perry wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 23, 1999 at 09:48:55, Dan Kiski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 23, 1999 at 04:32:08, Tina Long wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On February 21, 1999 at 19:50:13, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Rich just post the game score to shut these people up. We all know I like CM6K
>>>>>>>>and would just love to shut these people up once and for all, my games played
>>>>>>>>against Rebel 10 using the so called cooked opening books are the same, CM6K
>>>>>>>>thinks mainly on Rebel 10's thinking time, and in allot of cases has anywhere up
>>>>>>>>to 50 minutes more time on Rebel 10, this is not always the case but usually is.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Keep up the good work, anything Good CM6K does I always like to hear.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Michael,
>>>>>>>Once you were caught you admitted that you were using books created by your
>>>>>>>"Friend". i.e. COOKED BOOKS for Rebel only, you didn't even reverse the
>>>>>>>openings to make it a little fair. So skip the "so called" part.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>1. g3 sheesh!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Tina Long,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Michael clearly made no extravagent claims in that post and when asked openly
>>>>>>admitted using a non standard book. That is somewhat different from this case
>>>>>>where it seems that only results are claimed without even giving the game
>>>>>>scores. Your statements make it appear that Michael was trying to acheive
>>>>>>something with his post and I'm not even sure the "cooked books" statement is
>>>>>>fair since he was only experimenting.
>>>>>>Dan Kiski.
>>>>>
>>>>>I agree with Tina. As I recall, it wasn't until someone questioned the 1. g3
>>>>>openings that the information about the "experimental" or "cooked" [or whatever
>>>>>you choose to call it] opening book came to light. Why not simply play the
>>>>>programs heads up without "experimenting" unless you wanted to make sure that
>>>>>CM6K would win? And if it were experimental, this should have been mentioned
>>>>>before the games were posted.
>>>>
>>>>But Michael only posted one game without happening to mention every single
>>>>detail, missing one, a slip on his part, which anyone checking the game as we
>>>>all do could easily see. And that don't make sure that the CM6K would win
>>>>because the book was experimental, it just means the book was experimental, not
>>>>"cooked".
>>>>Dan Kiski.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thom I explained all this and if you want to look at this in a negative way then
>>>I cannot help that, but let me explain it to you again. The game had just
>>>finished, I had 20 minutes till I had to go to work, so I copied the moves to a
>>>txt file, and then added what hardware I was using and hash tables. I got on the
>>>net and copied and pasted all of that to here.
>>>
>>>After that you will see I forgot to say what time control I was using so I
>>>posted again the time control, with 2 minutes till I had to catch the train I
>>>got off the net, I posted the games to see what reaction I would get to this
>>>type of game. I got back on a while later to see something about the g3 move, I
>>>explained this as an oversight and that I forgot to add this due to me being in
>>>a rush and corrected it.
>>>
>>>I still do not understand how you think I could be so dumb as to try a fool
>>>people on here who know more about computer chess than me as to play an opening
>>>move that one of the worlds best chess programs do not play.
>>>
>>>You are basically Tina and Thom calling me dishonest, I take offense to that, I
>>>explained how this happened you have given your opinion which is not true so
>>>just shut up about it, keep on saying this over and over again like Tina has
>>>been is just a plain personal attack.
>>
>>Sorry. I apparently missed some key messages back then as I had
>>remembered the event differently.
>
>
>Not a problem Thom, now I just wish my fellow Aussie Lady Tina would do the
>same. but being an Aussie like me, I do not think so :-)

So you are an Aussie?  Well, I have some good news and some bad news for
you.  The bad news is that you are a CM6K fanatic.  The good news is that
after you became agitated at the twist in this original thread, you
vented your frustrations at us in a mature, responsible, and sensible
manner.  This caused me to reflect upon your explanation, which I may or
may not have originally examined, and to ultimately accept it, compelling
me to not only apologize, but to announce it in the header.  Would you
believe, I intended to capitalize the header, but I also was in a hurry
to get to work this morning.  Well, you know that old American
saying.....stuff happens.  Anyhow, if RH ever gets around to posting the
Hiarcs7 analyses for those games, I may have to send him the BIG A also.



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