"Seymore Butts" wrote:

The game they let Shredder have. Clearly this was a draw by 3 fold rep.

(89) Shredder - Jonny [B80]
WCCC Graz (11), 29.11.2003
[Radio ChessBase]



You miss the most interesting!

WSe have an even worse scandal. I read on the ChessBase webpage (German
edition) that the operator, who also is the programmer IMO, thought it was
"better" that "he" [the operator+author, NOT the prog!] didn't spoil SHREDDER
and SMK the opportunity to play for the title. With a draw, it is clear, that
JUNIOR would have been second.

What do we see here?

A typical example for the climate in our scene. It is dominated by a sort of
brown-nosing style. Not enough, we have a sort of authoritative milieu where in
the business ChessBase is dominating [in principle all programmers with a money
greed seek the financial harbour of ChessBase GUI for their engines] and in the
sports scene basically IM David Levy is dominating with his buddy Fred Friedel,
who stays behind the curtain but who, with the economical power of ChessBase,
has the biggest possibilities.

That is clearly to be seen today. This youngest kid in the tournament already
adopted the slave status. Without being asked or forced, he followed the
implicite rules. For what? Well, for later recompensation for himself.

This is not about unallowed help for SHREDDER or SMK, it is the insinuated
obedience of the youngest member!

Now we can understand why FRITZ played Kasparov, another buddy of Friedel. At
this tournament normally all had been prepared for BRUTUS. Because such a
project would give the highest profit in the business if it could be
merchandised. Because of the hardware which can't be copied and which is almost
10 times more expensive.

The engine of Jonny reclaimed a draw but its author didn't accept and continued
- in a lost position for Johnny. What a scandal, because it was SHREDDER which
played for the draw.

The operator and author can't play a different move against the intention of
his program!

The whole tournament is now a fake - after the ban of LIST, some points without
play and now the present by a young kid.

Rolf