Author: James Robertson
Date: 21:12:55 01/09/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 23:04:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 09, 2000 at 19:33:56, Mike S. wrote: > >>Bob, >>I hope you won't follow someone's footsteps and say "It's a conspiracy..." [:-) >> >>Regards, >>M.Scheidl >> >>P.S. I think CB versions of Crafty are good both for you and for Chessbase; I >>don't see why this should be influenced by this single article with results from >>a few games (btw., in the 3rd tournament reported there, Crafty has done much >>better). I think C.deGorter just tells his opinion, and doesn't claim that it's >>the final judgement. I wouldn't worry. > > >As I said, my original thoughts were wrong. I had been sent excerpts by email, >and no mention of the author's actual name, just the website. Now that I know >who wrote the thing, and have seen the _entire_ article, it was obviously >written by someone that doesn't "count" in my book. > >case closed here. no problems with Chessbase. De Gorter is a moron, however, >to publish something so badly written with so many contradicting statements and >tournament results... > >Glad to know that a report on "top commercial programs" has to spend most of >its words on "crafty". He needs a dictionary. Crafty isn't "commercial". >On my xeon, it also is _far_ from weak. Most realize this. Commercial or >not. He should have noticed that he published a tournament that shows Crafty needs no xeon to be competitive. :) James
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