Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:18:14 01/09/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 21:09:13, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 09, 2000 at 20:20:10, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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). > >Did I miss something? I didn't think the article had anything to do with >Chessbase. > >bruce I think this was _my_ error. A friend sent me a few excerpts. He was pretty livid about it (been working with me on computer chess for a _long_ time). What he sent didn't include the author's name, and the URL (which I couldn't get to at first) was Kasparov's site. Since he had already had something bad to say about Crafty once, I "assumed" it was him again. I was wrong, and neither he or Chessbase had anything to do with this as best I can tell. Of course, the article ought to be removed as an example of irresponsible and incompetent journalism, but that is another issue.
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