Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:20:10 01/09/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 17:50:50, Dave Gomboc wrote: [snip] >Isn't this "off the deep end"? He provides an engine of commercial quality (consider the endgame tablebase files and other advanced features) that competes well with commercial engines (look at FICS and ICC results, together with tournaments at just about any time control you might choose) and is the only program with open source. For his kindness, he gets called names. I think a bad report like this must be sparked by fear of something, but I have no idea what. Why would you bite a hand that is feeding you without cause? Any other engine will have large royalties associated with it. What kind of stupid junk are they trying to pull? It's like someone hands you a $20 bill and you slap them in return. Very strange. And from a precursory analysis, all the conclusions are clearly without basis. I have always perferred Chess Assistant to Chessbase, and this sort of thing really cements my already hard-headed opinion. I have defended Chessbase in the past, but now I think that I simply don't like that company. That's irresponsible journalism. I think he under-reacted, if anything. Kasparov at the end of the second deep-blue match was "off the deep-end." 'Off the deep end' requires something illogical in behavior (at least the way that I understand that expression). To be insulted by what is clearly an insult is normal behavior (IMO).
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