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George,
how you doing. I hope well. As you noticed I have stopped posting in the forum (and reading as well, right now there are about 600 new posts which I am not gonna read). I think my timing as far as getting into the forum was a little unfortunate, seems to be a lot of fighting back and forth currently, and I was getting sucked into that a little myself. Hopefully it will all blow over with time. I won't be posting anymore. I wish EVERYBODY, on both sides, nothing but the best.
how you doing. I hope well. As you noticed I have stopped posting in the forum (and reading as well, right now there are about 600 new posts which I am not gonna read). I think my timing as far as getting into the forum was a little unfortunate, seems to be a lot of fighting back and forth currently, and I was getting sucked into that a little myself. Hopefully it will all blow over with time. I won't be posting anymore. I wish EVERYBODY, on both sides, nothing but the best.
Your objectivity will be missed
Hi Harvey,
for legal issues I needed the exact postal address of the ICGA or of its representative President David Levy.
For further matters I needed also the postal address of Fabien Letouzey.
I hope that all this is no secret and can be transferred soon.
Thank You.
I visited the webpage of the ICGA and there was no address whatsoever. I ask you because you was organizer of the panel and you also know closely Mr. Levy.
for legal issues I needed the exact postal address of the ICGA or of its representative President David Levy.
For further matters I needed also the postal address of Fabien Letouzey.
I hope that all this is no secret and can be transferred soon.
Thank You.
I visited the webpage of the ICGA and there was no address whatsoever. I ask you because you was organizer of the panel and you also know closely Mr. Levy.
David's address is on the ICGA website click on subscribe. It is not for me to give out contact details for Fabien.
If Vas asks me for them i would of course supply them to him.
If Vas asks me for them i would of course supply them to him.
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this may be out of date, I did used to see him wandering around the Hampstead area occasionally because it is where I was brought up and lived myself for a while
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=106827
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=106827
as i said to Rolf click on subscribe on the icga website - i will make it easy for you http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/organisation/member.php
Albert,
Thanks for responding to the PM. Very Sorry to bring in back into this.
Thanks for responding to the PM. Very Sorry to bring in back into this.
Thanks Albert for sharing. You and Fred did well. Give Frederic my regards next time you speak to him.
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This is quite confusing since to join the panel you had to apply and be accepted. Then looking at most any page on the wiki you see what the wiki is for. The main page clearly says:
"ICGA Investigations Wiki
This wiki is used to gather data for investigation allegations of program theft or cloning for ICGA tournaments. It is a private wiki and information from it may not be shared with other sites without the permission of the ICGA."
(icga.wikispaces.com)
When the panel was formed, the address of the wiki was published so people could join.
I just do not see how you could not know what the wiki was for.
In any case, you are welcome to leave the panel. Please send me or Harvey or Bob a message on the wiki to confirm you are you and we can easily remove you from the membership.
"ICGA Investigations Wiki
This wiki is used to gather data for investigation allegations of program theft or cloning for ICGA tournaments. It is a private wiki and information from it may not be shared with other sites without the permission of the ICGA."
(icga.wikispaces.com)
When the panel was formed, the address of the wiki was published so people could join.
I just do not see how you could not know what the wiki was for.
In any case, you are welcome to leave the panel. Please send me or Harvey or Bob a message on the wiki to confirm you are you and we can easily remove you from the membership.
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Saying I am part of the Wiki where the issues are being investigated does not make me an investigator. You could perfectly well be allowing further experts to provide input or info while you the panelists make the final call. Ask FF if he knew he was henceforth a panelist. When I told him about it, he didn't even know the Wiki had anything to do with it, and just said, "I know, I saw. I have no idea how my name got on it." I had to explain it to him.
Albert, we were not trying to create a zoo. That is easy to do. We were trying to collect a group of people to help the secretariat with the investigation. We were assuming, based on the announcements scattered around, that anyone that applied wanted to participate. We accepted those that one or more of us knew, if we thought they would be helpful in the process (my wife would not have been accepted, for example, even though I know her rather well...) I do not believe it occurred to anyone that someone would apply for membership after having seen the announcement for the process. In reality, you _could_ have voted had you so chosen. 14 out of 34 (or 41%) of those accepted did vote. I now know that 41% is a "tiny fraction" of the total panel, according to one "expert" here. But when we were discussing the final report, most thought that was a pretty high turn-out for a very complex and lengthy "read". We had no way to pay anyone, all they could do was invest their time for no personal return of any kind.
We are about to start another investigation, and I think we will certainly make this clearer this time around and dismiss anyone that is not interested in actually taking part. I simply don't join things I am not willing to participate in, and didn't think others would either since the discussions were not going to be "lightweight" but would deal with lots of assembly language and C programming comparisons...
Version 2.0 of the panel will, therefore, probably be significantly smaller, but with a significantly higher final voting percentage than 41%.
We are about to start another investigation, and I think we will certainly make this clearer this time around and dismiss anyone that is not interested in actually taking part. I simply don't join things I am not willing to participate in, and didn't think others would either since the discussions were not going to be "lightweight" but would deal with lots of assembly language and C programming comparisons...
Version 2.0 of the panel will, therefore, probably be significantly smaller, but with a significantly higher final voting percentage than 41%.
Dear Dr Hyatt,
unfortunately I am starting to realize why some one with your credentials is held in such a very low esteem in this forum. >
I believe you are here referring to an argument that I put forward. Then you chose to use sarcasm, and put the word expert in quotation marks ("expert"). I assume you were making a joke because at no point have I ever claimed that I was an expert. Nor did I get involved in any of the technical discussions. I do have to congratulate you on your sense of humor. I was actually saying that 7 of the so called panel members were the original plaintiffs, so they should not have had a vote in the first place in my opinion. That leaves us with a guilty vote of 7 out of 27 and that means that approximately one out of every four people on the so called panel voted guilty. I am glad you have finally admitted that you will try to iron out some of the problems of this panel in the next version. That's okay, I don't need a thank you note from you for pointing that out, sarcasm will suffice. I just hope you don't load up your next panel with only people whose opinion is exactly the same as yours.
However you still continue to imply that those who abstained from voting were either people who were not interested in reading the report or could not understand it because of their background. In other words, you continue to insist that all people who actually understood the evidence voted guilty and the rest did not understand it (or did not want to read the reports). Well, that is your personal assertion, it may be true or it maybe false. Do we have any independent corroborating evidence of this assertion? You are also saying that playing black jack in a casino is not gambling, I guess you are an expert in gambling too. Bottom line is that you have lost a lot of your credibility with me and I am just not accepting anything that you say on face value. If that makes me an idiot, then so be it.
I think you dealt with so many negative posts that you basically brush everyone aside as being idiots (that's one of your favorite words by the way). Then your colleague Harvey wanted to check my IP number just because I made a simple factual criticism of his so called panel. I hope he was smart enough to quickly realize that he was going to get himself into a lot of REAL WORLD problems if he insists on trying to get my personal private information. Or maybe he was joking about getting my IP number, I guess you guys both have the same type of humor.
I have to say the two of you are continuing to do a wonderful job of representing ICGA and yourselves.
unfortunately I am starting to realize why some one with your credentials is held in such a very low esteem in this forum. >
> 14 out of 34 (or 41%) of those accepted did vote. I now know that 41% is a "tiny fraction" of the total panel, according to one "expert" here.
I believe you are here referring to an argument that I put forward. Then you chose to use sarcasm, and put the word expert in quotation marks ("expert"). I assume you were making a joke because at no point have I ever claimed that I was an expert. Nor did I get involved in any of the technical discussions. I do have to congratulate you on your sense of humor. I was actually saying that 7 of the so called panel members were the original plaintiffs, so they should not have had a vote in the first place in my opinion. That leaves us with a guilty vote of 7 out of 27 and that means that approximately one out of every four people on the so called panel voted guilty. I am glad you have finally admitted that you will try to iron out some of the problems of this panel in the next version. That's okay, I don't need a thank you note from you for pointing that out, sarcasm will suffice. I just hope you don't load up your next panel with only people whose opinion is exactly the same as yours.
However you still continue to imply that those who abstained from voting were either people who were not interested in reading the report or could not understand it because of their background. In other words, you continue to insist that all people who actually understood the evidence voted guilty and the rest did not understand it (or did not want to read the reports). Well, that is your personal assertion, it may be true or it maybe false. Do we have any independent corroborating evidence of this assertion? You are also saying that playing black jack in a casino is not gambling, I guess you are an expert in gambling too. Bottom line is that you have lost a lot of your credibility with me and I am just not accepting anything that you say on face value. If that makes me an idiot, then so be it.
I think you dealt with so many negative posts that you basically brush everyone aside as being idiots (that's one of your favorite words by the way). Then your colleague Harvey wanted to check my IP number just because I made a simple factual criticism of his so called panel. I hope he was smart enough to quickly realize that he was going to get himself into a lot of REAL WORLD problems if he insists on trying to get my personal private information. Or maybe he was joking about getting my IP number, I guess you guys both have the same type of humor.
I have to say the two of you are continuing to do a wonderful job of representing ICGA and yourselves.
I commented on the "only a small fraction of the panel voted." 41% is not a "small fraction." If you wrote that, then my comment was directed at you. If you didn't, then it wasn't. My point was/is that "41%" is NOT a "small fraction". It is real close to 1/2...
As far as who voted, I do not know if the 7 that signed the letter and joined the panel voted or not. I didn't deem that to be important. Again, the ones that signed the letter were the obvious candidates to help with the investigation. They are computer chess programmers with considerable skill and expertise. I do not even begin to "get it" when you (or others) say that anyone involved in the complaint or early investigation should have been barred from being on the panel for the later investigation. That makes absolutely _no_ sense. Those are the very people we wanted to help.
I did _not_ imply that only the ones that understood the evidence voted. I directly guessed that "only the ones willing to invest the time to read/study the report and accompanying information would be willing to vote." Not everyone is willing to put the time needed into reading and understanding the evidence. There's a lot of it. It is of a very technical nature. It takes significant understanding of computer chess programming concepts to follow.
I won't comment on the rest of your post... You can draw your own conclusions about anything you want...
As far as who voted, I do not know if the 7 that signed the letter and joined the panel voted or not. I didn't deem that to be important. Again, the ones that signed the letter were the obvious candidates to help with the investigation. They are computer chess programmers with considerable skill and expertise. I do not even begin to "get it" when you (or others) say that anyone involved in the complaint or early investigation should have been barred from being on the panel for the later investigation. That makes absolutely _no_ sense. Those are the very people we wanted to help.
I did _not_ imply that only the ones that understood the evidence voted. I directly guessed that "only the ones willing to invest the time to read/study the report and accompanying information would be willing to vote." Not everyone is willing to put the time needed into reading and understanding the evidence. There's a lot of it. It is of a very technical nature. It takes significant understanding of computer chess programming concepts to follow.
I won't comment on the rest of your post... You can draw your own conclusions about anything you want...
> They did not say that when they joined the panel.
They didn't join the panel!
Your first mistake? eh!
Bob isnt a real democrat and Harvey neither. IMO this is a big problem for their legal standing.
It doesn't mention "guests" because there was no such thing as a "guest". This was advertised, and everyone told "if you want to join the ICGA investigation panel, apply here... and your application will be reviewed." We had no "guest concept". We denied far more than we admitted, because we needed a basic level of skill to help. If all you could do is play chess, we didn't accept. If you were a program author (verified) you were accepted. If you had experience in computer chess, you were accepted. Not as a guest. As a "panel member."
There was never any mention of "guests" or anything other than panel members that were investigating the ICGA complaint. Perhaps Albert came, saw the technical discussions, decided "not for me" and left. If he was leaving for good, he should have spoken up and he would have been removed. I don't join committees here at UAB and just stop going when I lose interest. I'm expected to let someone know so that a replacement can be found, if needed. Seems like common courtesy.
There was never any mention of "guests" or anything other than panel members that were investigating the ICGA complaint. Perhaps Albert came, saw the technical discussions, decided "not for me" and left. If he was leaving for good, he should have spoken up and he would have been removed. I don't join committees here at UAB and just stop going when I lose interest. I'm expected to let someone know so that a replacement can be found, if needed. Seems like common courtesy.
Actually, we accepted most requests. Some people without a background in programming or computer chess were denied. One joined then quit. But most were accepted, assuming they were programmers and could understand the code, or had some useful background in computer chess (like running tournaments). Of course, many who joined did not participate much, but I know of no way in advance to determine who will be productive and who will not.
That _is_ the real list. You can ask anyone you know on the list. They can click on the "who's who" link at the bottom of the panel wiki page...
And regardless of what you think, we had a large sample of the most qualified people on the planet that are qualified/capable of investigating something like this.
And regardless of what you think, we had a large sample of the most qualified people on the planet that are qualified/capable of investigating something like this.
Hi Trotsky,
do you think this matter would be settled if we find a top imparcial/independent expert to look at the question of whether Vas cheated? How many man hours do you estimate (and I understand this is only an estimate) this would take and at approximately what cost? Would hiring a guy for 2 to 4 weeks to work on this full time and give us a report just about cover it?
The way I look at it, ICGA has already spoken. Vas, Convekta and Chessbase, for whatever reason, have decided to basically ignore this issue. For the rest of us, the alternative is clear, either we do our own testing and present it to the world, or we just get back to our lives. Otherwise, I think more "debate" here will deteriorate to just personal attacks as it already has. Thanks.
One last thing, just curiosity, you mention a "six year hate campaign on talkchess". Could you tell us what sparked this hate campaign in the first place? Thank you.
do you think this matter would be settled if we find a top imparcial/independent expert to look at the question of whether Vas cheated? How many man hours do you estimate (and I understand this is only an estimate) this would take and at approximately what cost? Would hiring a guy for 2 to 4 weeks to work on this full time and give us a report just about cover it?
The way I look at it, ICGA has already spoken. Vas, Convekta and Chessbase, for whatever reason, have decided to basically ignore this issue. For the rest of us, the alternative is clear, either we do our own testing and present it to the world, or we just get back to our lives. Otherwise, I think more "debate" here will deteriorate to just personal attacks as it already has. Thanks.
One last thing, just curiosity, you mention a "six year hate campaign on talkchess". Could you tell us what sparked this hate campaign in the first place? Thank you.
What is it with this "let's find a top expert to tell us" thing? There isn't one. You have to arrive at your own decision after reviewing the open unredacted debate where both sides are able to express their view, for or against, and critique the other side's position.
I can't tell you in full detail what goes on in talkchess because I spend long periods not reading it at all, but I recollect one main thing at the "start". Vas had been on talkchess for about 18 months, talking, asking Bob many questions, providing thoughts. During this time Vas was also learning and doing chess program development, it seems he downloaded Crafty and was busy working on it, learning and so on. I wasn't there at the time but I get the impression the relationship between Bob and Vas was quite important. Vas was the willing and bright learner and Bob was the willing and helpful teacher and they had many technical conversations. Bob likes intelligent younger people to try Crafty out and discuss with him. I suppose you could say Bob was the older man with experience and Vas the younger , keen and bright apprentice. This can be an important relationship for both sides and could be called a sort of friendship.
I don't know the reasons, but after this time Vas left talkchess and the Bob-Vas communication ceased. Vas went on to do commercial development. From Bob's point of view, and I've read his writings to this effect, he (Bob) experienced this as a kind of betrayal. Vas was an "apprentice friend" who happily discussed open source and Crafty with Bob, but then Vas disappeared, went "hidden-source", taking all the ideas that he and Bob had discussed and used them to become commercial, make money and cease the two-way discussion. Bob felt used and abandoned by his young-apprentice.
Sometime later the "Vas is a copier" allegations surfaced, Bob picked up on those and the long slippery slope led us to now.
In a nutshell, Bob was hurt, he thought he had a new young apprentice-friend, perhaps a replacement for Bruce Moreland, who then betrayed him by going secretive and commercial. So, really it is a story about love, hate, abandonment and betrayal.
I can't tell you in full detail what goes on in talkchess because I spend long periods not reading it at all, but I recollect one main thing at the "start". Vas had been on talkchess for about 18 months, talking, asking Bob many questions, providing thoughts. During this time Vas was also learning and doing chess program development, it seems he downloaded Crafty and was busy working on it, learning and so on. I wasn't there at the time but I get the impression the relationship between Bob and Vas was quite important. Vas was the willing and bright learner and Bob was the willing and helpful teacher and they had many technical conversations. Bob likes intelligent younger people to try Crafty out and discuss with him. I suppose you could say Bob was the older man with experience and Vas the younger , keen and bright apprentice. This can be an important relationship for both sides and could be called a sort of friendship.
I don't know the reasons, but after this time Vas left talkchess and the Bob-Vas communication ceased. Vas went on to do commercial development. From Bob's point of view, and I've read his writings to this effect, he (Bob) experienced this as a kind of betrayal. Vas was an "apprentice friend" who happily discussed open source and Crafty with Bob, but then Vas disappeared, went "hidden-source", taking all the ideas that he and Bob had discussed and used them to become commercial, make money and cease the two-way discussion. Bob felt used and abandoned by his young-apprentice.
Sometime later the "Vas is a copier" allegations surfaced, Bob picked up on those and the long slippery slope led us to now.
In a nutshell, Bob was hurt, he thought he had a new young apprentice-friend, perhaps a replacement for Bruce Moreland, who then betrayed him by going secretive and commercial. So, really it is a story about love, hate, abandonment and betrayal.
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For input into evidence of the "hate campaign" I offer up the following link:
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26945&start=0
Bob wrote:
"I don't buy the "this hurts Rybka" idea, because the cluster rybka is a joke. And a poor joke at that. There have been some decent cluster-based programs. But Rybka is simply not one of them."
To which Vas responded:
"Where did that come from ??
Vas"
There was no answer to his question, but a reasonable follow-up discussion on clustering did ensue. Try to imagine Vas using Bob's words to describe another programmers program, no matter how bad it was .. doesn't scan.
The human tableau in a single sentence, you are a poet sir!
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26945&start=0
Bob wrote:
"I don't buy the "this hurts Rybka" idea, because the cluster rybka is a joke. And a poor joke at that. There have been some decent cluster-based programs. But Rybka is simply not one of them."
To which Vas responded:
"Where did that come from ??
Vas"
There was no answer to his question, but a reasonable follow-up discussion on clustering did ensue. Try to imagine Vas using Bob's words to describe another programmers program, no matter how bad it was .. doesn't scan.
> "So, really it is a story about love, hate, abandonment and betrayal."
The human tableau in a single sentence, you are a poet sir!
Okay Nick, let's say that it has now been proven that Dr Hyatt's feelings were greatly hurt when Vas went commercial, etc. Now where is the evidence 1) that Hyatt's hurt feelings actually led him to falsely accuse another human being (let's say my girlfriend leaves me and my feelings are very hurt, that doesn't necessarily mean that I am going to falsely accuse her of something that she didn't do). 2) where is the evidence that Hyatt was the principal force here, convincing the ICGA board of falsely accusing Vas?
3) Wasn't it another programmer who complained about Vas in the first place? What does any of this have to do with Hyatt? (duh...I know it's a dumb question, but I had to ask it).
3) Wasn't it another programmer who complained about Vas in the first place? What does any of this have to do with Hyatt? (duh...I know it's a dumb question, but I had to ask it).
> 1) that Hyatt's hurt feelings actually led him to falsely accuse another human being (let's say my girlfriend leaves me and my feelings are very hurt, that doesn't necessarily mean that I am going to falsely accuse her of something that she didn't do).
A jury will make that assessment -- if it sees a hate campaign it will assume that it has had a bearing. I know, I have had the dubious pleasure of sitting on two juries (oh the boredom). It's all part of the evidence for the defence.
> 2) where is the evidence that Hyatt was the principal force here, convincing the ICGA board of falsely accusing Vas?
Since the ICGA decision I would use the metric of posts per hour per forum with the jury as evidence for Bob being the driving force. Probably someone from the panel would need to be summoned to testify one way or the other, under oath.
> 3) Wasn't it another programmer who complained about Vas in the first place?
I think Ed is at the top of the chain, yes, but not complaining, supporting.
> What does any of this have to do with Hyatt? (duh...I know it's a dumb question, but I had to ask it).
Bob Hyatt's words, specifically "the cluster rybka is a joke. And a poor joke at that.". Bob really does believe this but he is jumping to a conclusion (again), the jury might see it as Bob seriously undermining something that Vas spent a lot of time working on, they will also wonder about the character of the individual saying such words.
Hi Nick, thank you so much for your reply.>
That is completely false of course. This case has not even gone to court -nor is it in front of a jury- nor do we know if it ever will.
Let's say Dr Hyatt has put 10 billion posts here attacking Vas. How does that translate into him being the driving force to convince the ICGA board of Vas being a plagiarist. In other words, how did Dr Hyatt convince 5 people on the ICGA board to falsely accuse Vas? Did he bribe the board? Did he intimidate the board? You also mention "the jury" again -what jury are you talking about?!
so you are saying that an investigation was launched because the programmers sent a letter of support to ICGA?!
what jury are you talking about?
I am sorry, but based on the lack of evidence in your post, I am not convinced that Dr Hyatt was the principal instigator of this investigation, nor that he was the driving force behind it's conclusion. I mean there are guys who have put hundreds and hundreds of posts here, but that doesn't mean that because of the volume of their posts, I am going to sympathize with them. Yet, you expect us to believe that because Dr Hyatt hated Vas, that somehow he was able to convince the board to falsely accuse Vas of plagiarism. That maybe true, but no concrete evidence was presented so far.
Best regards.
> A jury will make that assessment
That is completely false of course. This case has not even gone to court -nor is it in front of a jury- nor do we know if it ever will.
>
> Since the ICGA decision I would use the metric of posts per hour per forum with the jury as evidence for Bob being the driving force
Let's say Dr Hyatt has put 10 billion posts here attacking Vas. How does that translate into him being the driving force to convince the ICGA board of Vas being a plagiarist. In other words, how did Dr Hyatt convince 5 people on the ICGA board to falsely accuse Vas? Did he bribe the board? Did he intimidate the board? You also mention "the jury" again -what jury are you talking about?!
>
> I think Ed is at the top of the chain, yes, but not complaining, supporting.
>
so you are saying that an investigation was launched because the programmers sent a letter of support to ICGA?!
>
> the jury might see it
what jury are you talking about?
I am sorry, but based on the lack of evidence in your post, I am not convinced that Dr Hyatt was the principal instigator of this investigation, nor that he was the driving force behind it's conclusion. I mean there are guys who have put hundreds and hundreds of posts here, but that doesn't mean that because of the volume of their posts, I am going to sympathize with them. Yet, you expect us to believe that because Dr Hyatt hated Vas, that somehow he was able to convince the board to falsely accuse Vas of plagiarism. That maybe true, but no concrete evidence was presented so far.
Best regards.
Thanks for your reply also, I understand from a recent post from Harvey that this potentially might be going further, perhaps into a legal phase, so it's probably wise not to talk about it in public. We can agree to disagree .. as Michael Sandel says, "democracy is not neat and systematic, it's messy, it's contentious, it's argumentative -- at it's best."
Best regards,
Nick
Best regards,
Nick
> Thanks for your reply also, I understand from a recent post from Harvey that this potentially might be going further, perhaps into a legal phase, so it's probably wise not to talk about it in public. We can agree to disagree .. as Michael Sandel says, "democracy is not neat and systematic, it's messy, it's contentious, it's argumentative -- at it's best."
Translation: I don't know the answer to your probing questions so I will stop debating.
Isn't this just deflection anyway? You seem to attempting to give reasons why Dr Hyatt has been posting what he has been posting. It doesn't wash though - most of his posts are calm, technically correct, to the point and I don't detect any personal animosity towards Vas in any of them. You seem to miss the point that Vas has been proven to have stolen the work of others and has shown no remorse for doing so. Making up back-stories is pretty much irrelevant, even if they were true, which doesn't seem to be the case.
> Translation: I don't know the answer to your probing questions so I will stop debating.
The reason that I entered the debate was because I saw that the Rybka PST "code" in the Zach document is shown as appearing in Rybka but it is not in Rybka. Mark and (eventually) Bob have both agreed that the PST issue is not about alleged code copying, it's about alleged data copying, and that the code shown in the Rybka columns for the PST code is not actually in Rybka. I probably should have left the above post from Bob Hyatt denigrating Rybka out, so as not to pre-warn the accusers. Any other matters for the defense I will talk to Vas personally about, if he asks me.
Best regards,
Nick
I still think you are avoiding the questions asked by Homayoun_Sohrabi_M.D. Please answer his questions - I doubt you'll be a witness if there is a case, and that's a very big IF.
> 3) Wasn't it another programmer who complained about Vas in the first place? What does any of this have to do with Hyatt? (duh...I know it's a dumb question, but I had to ask it).
The ICGA investigation started when a letter of complaint was sent to the ICGA. It was signed by several programmers including Ed. Bob did not sign it.
That's a proof for the fact that the whole hate campaign was led by Hyatt. Formally he hasnt signed the letter, but he was the main propagandist for the existence of such a complaint letter at all.Sometimes in Law it's about formal details but then there are other cases where the content is proven by a 6 years long hatred. I know this so well because from the start in 2005/2006 I was on board of this slime.
The whole argument reminds me of the German Nazi past. There are naive people who tried to raise hatred among the people after the war by claiming that Hitler never knew bout the massmurder of the Jews. For all that he never signed a "Befehl", the magic word that all autoritarian nonames took as justification for their own participation in some bloody murder. But to make the point quit clear. Judging the hatred of Hitler against the Jews that was content of vast chapters of his own book and more in almost all speeches in public, and then to insinuate a possible innocence and a theory that he on the top didnt know about the whole evil system of a bureaucratically disguised mass murder by a whole people, that is a crazy nonsense.
But it's clear that Hyatt begins slowly to crawl backwards because if anyone then he is guilty of leading this yearlong shameless activity by the propaganda over the internet. He even defended it by numerous justification long before anything had been worked out by his aid Zach. That is the reason for this term lynch justice at all. In a legal justice you respect certain routines and logic. You cant begin with the verdict and then seek evidence. Or you should always declare that it's only a theory or hypothesis, an assumption, but how could then Vas be prejudged in a evil ad hominem as if it had all been proven already? (See my quote from Christophe Theron from France.)
That is what brought me into the debate at all because it all went counter the well known routine of science. Dr. Hyatt hat it all the other way round. Because of his expertise he believed he had the right to spit his slime on another member of the community. I had no idea of the tech details of the whole debate, but I knew that the routine of honest justice and science was not respected. Abd that brought me to the consequence that then Bob couldnt be right. Especially when Bob admitted that he himself didnt have the time at all to look into Fruit code, I knew that there was something totally wrong, that this man had an axe to grind with Vas. And I asked him over and over again. And he replied, he said that what Vas has done wasnt ok. He had communicated with Bob and then after he had understood a lot he went away and started a commercial program. And although Bob wouldnt be against going commercial Vas nevertheless had deceived him. Because he stopped communication which was against Bob's philosophy of taking and giving.
The witchhunt was born because now Bob tried to find out on his own why Rybka had become so strong. Bob's only explanation, Vas must have cheated. After that idea was born, Bob took many steps that had the only goal of reveiling what Bob had never discovered himself. The hate campaign was the cover up for outright stealing code and understanding ideas of the strength of the new World Champion program. Bob's ethic went down lower and lower. He even tolerated pseudo guys who had stolen Rybka code. He cooperated with Norm the King of Cloning and Fraud. The rest of the 14 votes is history.
The whole argument reminds me of the German Nazi past. There are naive people who tried to raise hatred among the people after the war by claiming that Hitler never knew bout the massmurder of the Jews. For all that he never signed a "Befehl", the magic word that all autoritarian nonames took as justification for their own participation in some bloody murder. But to make the point quit clear. Judging the hatred of Hitler against the Jews that was content of vast chapters of his own book and more in almost all speeches in public, and then to insinuate a possible innocence and a theory that he on the top didnt know about the whole evil system of a bureaucratically disguised mass murder by a whole people, that is a crazy nonsense.
But it's clear that Hyatt begins slowly to crawl backwards because if anyone then he is guilty of leading this yearlong shameless activity by the propaganda over the internet. He even defended it by numerous justification long before anything had been worked out by his aid Zach. That is the reason for this term lynch justice at all. In a legal justice you respect certain routines and logic. You cant begin with the verdict and then seek evidence. Or you should always declare that it's only a theory or hypothesis, an assumption, but how could then Vas be prejudged in a evil ad hominem as if it had all been proven already? (See my quote from Christophe Theron from France.)
That is what brought me into the debate at all because it all went counter the well known routine of science. Dr. Hyatt hat it all the other way round. Because of his expertise he believed he had the right to spit his slime on another member of the community. I had no idea of the tech details of the whole debate, but I knew that the routine of honest justice and science was not respected. Abd that brought me to the consequence that then Bob couldnt be right. Especially when Bob admitted that he himself didnt have the time at all to look into Fruit code, I knew that there was something totally wrong, that this man had an axe to grind with Vas. And I asked him over and over again. And he replied, he said that what Vas has done wasnt ok. He had communicated with Bob and then after he had understood a lot he went away and started a commercial program. And although Bob wouldnt be against going commercial Vas nevertheless had deceived him. Because he stopped communication which was against Bob's philosophy of taking and giving.
The witchhunt was born because now Bob tried to find out on his own why Rybka had become so strong. Bob's only explanation, Vas must have cheated. After that idea was born, Bob took many steps that had the only goal of reveiling what Bob had never discovered himself. The hate campaign was the cover up for outright stealing code and understanding ideas of the strength of the new World Champion program. Bob's ethic went down lower and lower. He even tolerated pseudo guys who had stolen Rybka code. He cooperated with Norm the King of Cloning and Fraud. The rest of the 14 votes is history.
Bob had nothing to do with the letter. fabien came back and made a few posts then the letter was written. Bob and mark Lefler decided they should not sign it as they had been asked to help run the panel.
The FSF now look like they will take on the case so we will see what happens.
The FSF now look like they will take on the case so we will see what happens.
Harvey, forgive my asking, but would you have a link to that letter, I'd like to read it -or perhaps you could be kind enough to just put the letter in your post. Thank you.
Thanks Harvey. I read the letter. Looks like it was signed by about 15 or 16 programmers.
In case you are wondering why Bob did not sign the original letter of complaint, he wrote on this forum:
Which strongly suggests he would have signed it if he had not been asked to be a member of the investigative committee.
"I had nothing to do with the original letter, I chose to not sign it since David had already asked me to be a member of the investigative committee, and it seemed sort of stupid to sign a letter to myself. :) " Which strongly suggests he would have signed it if he had not been asked to be a member of the investigative committee.
Nick thanks so far. This is pure Bob. He is totally honest believe me but this goes even so far that he shows his lack of ethical education. Here he admits that the process with the panel was preconfigured and that also the letter was part of this plan. It was a conspiracy to get several programmers together to then throw out Vas.
Let me give you a second example 16 years ago we had a debate about death verdicts etc on the then called rgcc in usenet. You can google it.
After a while of heated debates I thought it could help to see how the University officials would think about such undemocratic propaganda. I got no response whatsoever. So, I brought this into the forum and Bob explained to me in a legendary explanation for his total lack of ethics. He wrote. If I would really think that he would let pass such an email with such a bad content, since he was the operator for the email box himself with some others and they had directly shown him the email from Germany.
Know what I mean? What do you expect Bob should do with Harvey when he manipulated the output of Hiarcs?
Again, I like Bob's honesty and teaching about computerchess basics, but it's beyond me how a democrat is able to propagate certain stuff over the internet. Thus violating basic elements of ethics. And it's unbelievable how sloppy Bob is in his handling scientific rules. In DB and also Harvey's case this way and here against Vas with his prejudging that way.
Let me give you a second example 16 years ago we had a debate about death verdicts etc on the then called rgcc in usenet. You can google it.
After a while of heated debates I thought it could help to see how the University officials would think about such undemocratic propaganda. I got no response whatsoever. So, I brought this into the forum and Bob explained to me in a legendary explanation for his total lack of ethics. He wrote. If I would really think that he would let pass such an email with such a bad content, since he was the operator for the email box himself with some others and they had directly shown him the email from Germany.
Know what I mean? What do you expect Bob should do with Harvey when he manipulated the output of Hiarcs?
Again, I like Bob's honesty and teaching about computerchess basics, but it's beyond me how a democrat is able to propagate certain stuff over the internet. Thus violating basic elements of ethics. And it's unbelievable how sloppy Bob is in his handling scientific rules. In DB and also Harvey's case this way and here against Vas with his prejudging that way.
>For input into evidence of the "hate campaign" I offer up the following link:
He makes an off-hand comment about someone's work being a joke... that makes it a "hate campaign"???
Let's laugh that evidence "out of court."Of course, you've never said that about something that someone did (behind their back).
Someone makes a jibe or takes a poke at you... and you feel the need to run home and cry about it? Or do you stand up and defend what you are doing? Keeping silent works too... but crying about it?
Let's not be Forum Girlie-Men.
Hate campaign my robert derrière...
>Bob really does believe this but he is jumping to a conclusion (again), the jury might see it as Bob seriously undermining something that Vas spent a lot of time working on, they will also wonder about the character of the individual saying such words.
"Oh boo hoo... sniff sniff... your words... how they pierce my heart and wound me..."
A jury might also think about the attorney who brings up such a thing, "what a dope".
Nice try to discredit Bob since you do not like his responses.
You really amaze me Nick with these posts.
"So, really it is a story about love, hate, abandonment and betrayal." Is it in paperback yet?
gts
Is it in paperback yet?gts
Not yet, but I think Bob is shopping it around for a possible telenovela
Great post Trotsky, thank you.
The great majority of chess players, distributors, etc do NOT have the time nor the interest to "review the open unredacted debate" as you put it. Nor should they be expected to do that. Yet they still want to know whether this CD in their hand or this software that they downloaded is plagiarized or not. So after both sides of extremely intelligent people, such as yourself, have expressed their views and debated everything, the regular chess player will ask: "so, did Vas cheat or not"? That's when my " "let's find a top expert to tell us" thing" as you put it comes into play. >
Thank you again for your great post and reply.
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> What is it with this "let's find a top expert to tell us" thing? There isn't one. You have to arrive at your own decision after reviewing the open unredacted debate where both sides are able to express their view, for or against, and critique the other side's position.
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The great majority of chess players, distributors, etc do NOT have the time nor the interest to "review the open unredacted debate" as you put it. Nor should they be expected to do that. Yet they still want to know whether this CD in their hand or this software that they downloaded is plagiarized or not. So after both sides of extremely intelligent people, such as yourself, have expressed their views and debated everything, the regular chess player will ask: "so, did Vas cheat or not"? That's when my " "let's find a top expert to tell us" thing" as you put it comes into play. >
Thank you again for your great post and reply.
I'm far from a moralist, Dr. But if it were me and I had the cd in my hand, I would be a lot less concerned about copying and more concerned about "will it play at a 75 elo gain from the last version", as he said it will. You have to understand that the reason the former doesn't bother me is because of 2 things: Experts can stomp around in the muck and mire for years while I'm holding the cd and waiting on help from ahigh. I don't particularly like this analogy, but it is the best I can come up with on short notice. You are on trial for murder. Your lawyer hires a high priced psych to declare you crazy- not able to stand trial. The prosecution hires one, and he says you are fine. No mental problems. Exactly where is everyone supposed to head now. It could in the end turn on a panel member who knows too much and can't sleep at night because of his conscience. And you are left twirling the cd. Use it, have fun, and let the rest bicker and bite. And in your hands,it is worth just as much as it would be if a panel found him innocent. Don't let any of them play with your mind and make you feel bad for buying it.
Best,
gts
Best,
gts
Good morning George,
I read some of your other posts already today, you have a razor sharp wit, looks like you are locked and loaded this morning, good for you, keep the posts coming, I enjoy them.
George, I am very slowly starting to read the ICGA investigative files, and I mean slowly, but I'll finish reading them by the end of August. First of all, my idea of getting an expert was probably a dumb one, I say that now, because I took a look at the names of the investigative panel of the ICGA, the 34 or so people that looked at this. I am telling you, THESE GUYS WERE THE EXPERTS. Plus they had Ken Thompson, and Friedel and a couple of other guys. They had multiple prior computer world chess champions on that list and a who's who of computer chess programmers. Well, you can see the names yourself if you haven't already. One thing that concerns me is why Vas failed to defend himself -looks like he was given that opportunity. Someone accuses you of cheating and you just say "i don't care"? I mean you George have no vested interest in this thing and you obviously care. It just doesn't make sense when he says I don't care. I know he has also said he is innocent, but where is his technical analysis?
Getting back to your question though, I am far from a moralist too. As a chess player, I just want to have the best engine to analyze my games and show me the best moves. However, if I were in a competition, I would want it to be fair. I wouldn't want any cheaters in it. If I have spent several years developing a software, I wouldn't want anyone violating my rights or copying my work and then claiming it as his.
Anyways, I know you and some others are very passionate about Vas's innocence and that's cool. I certainly don't know the truth, maybe after reading the reports, I'll have a more concrete opinion. I enjoy your posts George, please keep them coming.
PS: I have to admit, I'll probably buy Ryb5 (no matter how this thing shakes out), but of course only if it's stronger than Houdini -and you are aware that a new version of Houdini is due to be released this year.
I read some of your other posts already today, you have a razor sharp wit, looks like you are locked and loaded this morning, good for you, keep the posts coming, I enjoy them.
George, I am very slowly starting to read the ICGA investigative files, and I mean slowly, but I'll finish reading them by the end of August. First of all, my idea of getting an expert was probably a dumb one, I say that now, because I took a look at the names of the investigative panel of the ICGA, the 34 or so people that looked at this. I am telling you, THESE GUYS WERE THE EXPERTS. Plus they had Ken Thompson, and Friedel and a couple of other guys. They had multiple prior computer world chess champions on that list and a who's who of computer chess programmers. Well, you can see the names yourself if you haven't already. One thing that concerns me is why Vas failed to defend himself -looks like he was given that opportunity. Someone accuses you of cheating and you just say "i don't care"? I mean you George have no vested interest in this thing and you obviously care. It just doesn't make sense when he says I don't care. I know he has also said he is innocent, but where is his technical analysis?
Getting back to your question though, I am far from a moralist too. As a chess player, I just want to have the best engine to analyze my games and show me the best moves. However, if I were in a competition, I would want it to be fair. I wouldn't want any cheaters in it. If I have spent several years developing a software, I wouldn't want anyone violating my rights or copying my work and then claiming it as his.
Anyways, I know you and some others are very passionate about Vas's innocence and that's cool. I certainly don't know the truth, maybe after reading the reports, I'll have a more concrete opinion. I enjoy your posts George, please keep them coming.
PS: I have to admit, I'll probably buy Ryb5 (no matter how this thing shakes out), but of course only if it's stronger than Houdini -and you are aware that a new version of Houdini is due to be released this year.
I am not really passionate about any conclusion, at least nothing I can take to the bank right now. I don't want to be like all the people on Talk Chess before a panel was even formed. Why do you feel 100% sure Vas is guilty w/o a doubt. All I ever got was "Because Bob Hyatt said he was". Left me wondering how many of them had relatives who drank kool-aid with Jim Jones down in lovely Guyana. I have some pretty damn good ideas, but they are taking a rest at the moment. We shall see. Shant we! The best I can tell you right now- 110% with no doubt- WHATSOEVER. If I find for sure he is guiltier than hell, I will still be the same friend I was. I don't take polls to help decide who my friends are.
Best,
gts
Best,
gts
> I have to admit, I'll probably buy Ryb5 (no matter how this thing shakes out), but of course only if it's stronger than Houdini -and you are aware that a new version of Houdini is due to be released this year.
This is a 100% sensible attitude in my opinion. You are saying, in effect, that what matters is ELO strength and all the rest is not relevant to your decision to purchase/play or not. There is no one who could object to that, not even Vas. (If he does object then let me say right here that he's wrong and the free market decides such things.) My point: what sane and mentally balanced individual would care about anything else?
Dr.- I am going to get some sleep now. Back later. If you will message me on this forum, anyone can tell you how, and give me your email address- when I get up I will read it and reply giving you my email address. You asked a few questions, for one, "Why Vas does not defend himself and doesn't seem to care?" And another question or so. Those are easy to answer, and I will- in emails back and forth with you. You are into an area where privacy is the best route now. Trust me on that. Look for you message here on this forum after I get about 8 hrs. sleep.
Best again,
gts
Best again,
gts
Damn, I was heading to bed and I noticed one last thing, Dr., I need to say before heading to dreamland. Don't get more excited than you should about the big names on the panel. Certainly they are all wonderfully fine experts. I got an even deal for you: I will let you take the whole panel, and I shall take Trotsky and pull myself a programmer out of Dallas, Texas I know. Try not to feel too bad when you see I got way the best of that deal.
Best,
gts
Best,
gts
George, it's all good. I don't have the kind of passion that you guys have for this. I am just messing around, chillaxing, got some down time in August, will get back to work on Aug 21. My own sister and brother in law are computer programmers, work for Boeing, up near Seattle, but I wouldn't ask them to look at any of this, they are too busy with their own lives. Anyways, we'll talk more later.
Dr., one last thing here that might help you understand. Is it important- does it matter? You decide. I am going to put a halt to any arrows coming my way- I'm to lazy to duck. Is Vas innocent- I'm not sure. Is he guilty- I'm not sure. One thing I AM SURE OF. All of this happened way after 2000 and YK2. But Bob Hyatt died in 1995 saving 6 children from a burning house. A true hero. There is no shortage of programmers, freeware and commercial, who cannot stand the ground Vas walks on, nor the keyboard he types on. I.E. they are so filled with jealousy, hate, vitriol it makes them nauseated. "I have been struggling to make a living with my program for 12 years- I will be damned if he is going to come in and in 18 mo. make me look like a rookie." Or, "I'm not commercial, simply because I just cannot get over the hump, and it is not fair because I'm smarter than him. I know it." I stop at 2, and only because I am tired of typing. But you get the drift. Now! How much of that can be translated over "into finding anything, any way possible- if it ain't there, by God it will be when we get thru?" Or a bit was somewhere and a molehill was made into Mount Everest. All very good considerations. The hate for him was there, and I have never quite figured why. Before him, mention Chessbase on TalkChess and duck. And run. It was just somehow transposed over to Vas. But the stupidest thing of all- Vas is aligned with Chessbase now, so should not the hate for Chessbase be double? Nada! You can talk all day and no one gives a shit. Maybe there is only so much hatred and it is all used up on Vas. Again, how much of all this hatred and jealousy formed a bias how large and caused what? I hope you were not expecting the perfect answer, because I don't have it. I only have part of it. But I sleep well every night. I don't need to crucify anyone to feel better about myself.
Best,
gts
Best,
gts
thanks George, and by the way I PM'ed you with my email already
I shall send you mine and check yours a bit later. Give me about 12 hours to be safe.
gts
gts
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