Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 12:10:48 09/05/05
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* I forgot to add the footnote so here it comes: Long time ago I was beta-tester of the database program of ChessBase. And I was highly motivated. I researched all kind of handling of the databases of the names for instance and the tournament headers. ok, just a small extract of the whole program. I make a short conclusion. My test results didn't interest M. Wüllenweber at all. I found out too many problems. CB wasn't interested in solving these problems because they said, that these problems were singular ones when a tester like me started to research the program. But for 90% of the users MY findings were completely uninteresting. that means CB isn't focussing on the quality of their program as such but on the experience of the average user. And they must take the ignorance of that user as relatively high! That was a deception for me because I thought that all faults I had found would be seaking for my own class as a tester. But to the contrary I became a problem myself for Wüllenweber because he had no arguments why clear faults wouldn't find a correction. thorsten, here you can see the whole philosophy of engineers. they have a limited goal and they seek a practical solution. what they do not seek is the scientifically optimal solution. with such a limitation you could never become a chess champion. as I stated more than once a real champion would try to solve a chess position as such although he's not stupid and knows exactly that he could also win the game against a special opponent if he wouldn't solve the problem with maximal exactness. but he has the ethical idea towards chess that he's seeking for his best possible solution at the moment in time. this is what you miss completely if you turn your back on chess players. at least a chess genius will always seek the optimal solution. chess programmers or operators will only seek a solution for the next gamble with the actually possible fakes out of opening books and tables. there is no respect towards chess and its history and its rules. remember Jonny author who is himself a master player? he betrayed the rules of chess and gave SHREDDER and SMK a point. this is what computerchess in ICGA has made out of honest people.
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