Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 14:35:26 09/05/05
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On September 05, 2005 at 15:10:48, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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! yes. chessbase is interested in making money. not in quality. they gave up the idea of a public domain club when friedel came to the team . matthias wanted a club. friedel convinced him to make a commercial product. >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. sad. >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. nobody of us is a genius. we are all humans. normal humans. >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. i cannot share your idea of an elite chess. maybe you should talk with tarrasch about this. >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. yes. Jaap has problems with deciding the fair sports stuff. he always finds a trap where to fall into. is that by will or stupidity ?
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