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Subject: Re: The Discussion Here Is About The Meaning Of Server-Games

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 14:33:09 09/03/05

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On September 03, 2005 at 17:23:07, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On September 03, 2005 at 17:13:25, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2005 at 16:37:45, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Excuse me if I insist. You are both wrong in your insinuations against Eduard.
>>>
>>>1. First of all even if Eduard would post such losses of Zappa just for the fun
>>>of it it would be allowed posting of naked facts! If someone wanted to see the
>>>wins of Zappa than it's his duty to go for himself and see. But I am pretty sure
>>>that Eduard is NOT doing this to make angry the author of Zappa.
>>>
>>>2. Someone does post factual losses. Where is the burden on him to post ALL
>>>games, among them also the wins of Zappa?? In my mind we are a group and if
>>>someone is posting losses, others are invited and FREE to post wins. Go for it
>>>if you like. But it's not allowed to insult Eduard for having mean motivations
>>>if he's posting losses of an engine he has observed with his own eyes!
>>>
>>>3. It is heavily wrong to aim now at Eduard and HIS chess if Eduard is posting
>>>about a chessprogram. Ad hominem is forbidden in such a forum, period. Do you
>>>want to imply that if Eduard is NOT strong enough, say, no World Champion
>>>himself, then he's not allowed to post losses of a veritable World Champion??
>>>That would be a completely wrong logic.
>>>
>>>4. The main scandal of the actual events is this: it seems as if the author of a
>>>winning WCCC program is allowed to accuse a poster of naked facts in unallowed
>>>ad hominem manner. I will go, he says, if such a poster is posting losses of my
>>>baby. I am angry and deeply insulted. - This is a failure of personal judgement.
>>>And also a winner at a WCCC doesn't get a superior insight in motivations of all
>>>other posters.
>>>
>>>5. People should apologize to Eduard. He hasn't done something wrong.
>>
>>It's a good thing to see that Eduard has a lot of friends here.
>>Unfortunately that doesn't make a wrong thing right. It was not very nice to
>>post so many losses of Zappa, and not mention the wins. This gives a false
>>impression about Zappa. I don't comment if this was intended or not, but a lot
>>of readers had this impression. Zappa is going to be sold in future, and this
>>can have a bad influence on  Anthonies business. If a new product is announced
>>and somebody tries to decry it he can not expect the seller will like him for
>>that. Now if you do that with a product that is sold for years and everybody
>>knows, now that is sth else.
>>I think Eduard should apologize to Anthony.
>>
>>bye
>>Andy
>
>No, sorry, Andy.
>
>CCC is mainly a forum dedicated to science and the truth. You would be well
>advised if you wouldn't post such things as the above, namely that the writing
>about factual lossed of a certain Zappa version could hurt the business
>interests of Anthony. If we begin to accept such ideosyncrasies we end in
>madness and witchhunting of the Middle Ages. We shouldn't go such low. Also I
>dont see why a commercial program shouldn't lose games against other programs.
>Let's forget about such a hybris. All progs are losing games.
>
>Best, Rolf

Well, we will never agree here. I doubt we even understand each other. Let's put
it to rest. Nobody says anything about posting factual losses. Posting 10% lost
games and not mentioning 90% of won games is what makes the people angry.

best wishes,
andy



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