Author: Axel Schumacher
Date: 08:12:47 09/21/05
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On September 21, 2005 at 09:58:55, Mridul Muralidharan wrote: >On September 21, 2005 at 08:43:32, Murat wrote: > >> >>Hi Enrico, >>Axel did a free service to the handheld chess community. And he did an excellent >>job. >> >>We all know about the strength of hiarcs. But as a 1700 player it means little >>to me. Further more, you as a person who is working for hiarcs, badgering Axel >>is very distasteful. Looks bad on the company you are representing. >> >>You made your point, now get of his back. You lost me as a potential hiarcs >>customer and you will lose more of them if you keep attacking Axel. >> >> >>Regards >> >>Murat :. > >I cannot agree with you. >It is good not to have a review done than to have a factually incorrect one. >Axel did a tough job considering the number of engines tested , but the >development team has a right to point out factual errors in the review if they >think there are some. > >The issues raised by Enrico are valid issues - not badgering (and Axel has >accepted some of them already). >Errors are errors and even the most well-intentioned tests might have them. > That is correct. Personally, I want people to show the mistakes in the review. As I poited out earlier, if you test over 6000 parameters, as I did, some number are wrong for sure, because you will miss always some points. However, the way Enrico comes attacking is not very gentlemen like and it is not very productive. >It is in everyones interests that more tests like this get done and also get >corrected when errors are found. > >By the way , considering your response - I think you have never been emotionally >involved in any project : when you give 80+ hours a week on somthing you believe >in , then you will understand why Enrico reacted the way he did. > >Thanks to Axel for doing the tests and for Enrico for paying such attention and >pointing out the mistakes ! >- Mridul
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