The key accusersRebel wrote:Start here: http://www.top-5000.nl/david.htmbob wrote: Why don't you try explaining what you mean? Not everyone can follow your extremely convoluted reasoning here. I will repeat, since Don's response followed Ed's post, what does technical ability have to do with morality in this context (the icga investigation, finding Vas guilty, while many are using ideas from ip* in their programs)???
David Levy, chairman of the ICGA
Mark Lefler, IGCA secretariat
Robert Hyatt, IGCA secretariat
Zach Wegner, Rybka research
Mark Watkins, Rybka research
The key dissentients
Professor Miguel A. Ballicora author of Gaviota and the Gaviota Table Bases
Chris Whittington producer of the famous Chess System Tal
Ed Schröder producer of the REBEL series and 2-times world champion
http://www.top-5000.nl/david.htm
The extract above is from your latest masterpiece. You list the backgrounds/credentials of those whom you see as the key accusers and key dissenters. Although you dwell on your own achievements, describe Chris Whittington as “producer of the famous Chess System Tal” and describe Miguel as "Professor Miguel A. Ballicora author of Gaviota and the Gaviota Table Bases" you write off Hyatt as "Robert Hyatt, IGCA secretariat" In the light of the potted biography of Hyatt, below, is it possible that you are both economical and selective with the truth?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Robert (Bob) Hyatt is an Associate Professor of Computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (1988-present). He is the author of the computer chess program Crafty and the co-author of Cray Blitz, a two-time winner of the World Computer Chess Championships. He has been actively involved in computer chess since he first started to program a computer to play chess in 1968. These efforts have been supported by various computer vendors such as Univac (1978), Cray Research (1980-1994), and more recently AMD via their developer's lab. Crafty is freely available both in executable form (from many different web sites) and in source form (from Hyatt's home page). Crafty presently participates in many computer chess tournaments (and an occasional human chess tournament). An old version of the source of Cray Blitz is also available on the internet for those interested in seeing what computer chess looked like in the late 1980's.
The possibility that you are both economical and selective with the truth is supported by the observations that I make about your presentation, below. Perhaps they are incomplete; I took no more than a cursory glance at your stuff before the urge to get some fresh air took hold:
#. You deliberately confuse a jury with a panel of experts. Juries consist of laymen and on your website you support Levy's decision to exclude them. I refer to that fact below.
#. You question the integrity of other programmers on the flimsiest possible circumstantial evidence.
#. You fail to point out that you yourself signed the document that was produced.
#. You fail to point out that some of those whom you characterise as “not chess programmers at all” and “thus were not qualified to judge the evidence” are actually experienced programmers who are familiar with the workings of chess programs, thereby meeting Levy's criteria for suitability to be on the panel.