The PlayChess Forum is gone from hiarcs.net. Looks like there may have been a parting of ways. Harvey wrote somewhere (note to legal, this is a paraphrase): "as long as I'm sysop, [the clones] won't be allowed on PlayChess," or something similar -- I can't find the quote right now. Anyway, looks ...

Looks like "Rolf" is now back posting on CCC. Fabien will bite I suspect... :( Rolf length posts as well...... I wasn't gonna crack out the nacho's but hey.....it's the weekend. And if licking is the order of the day. I'd prefer to lick a nacho. You know what's so funny about this thread? Talk ...

Why does anyone even care if a 5 year old program is a clone (derivative work)?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. :|

Seriously, I want people to pause for a second, and assess in midst of all the noise...look at what has happened to the chess community in the last few years. Who is the ...

Jeremy Bernstein wrote:It looks like Harvey doesn't feel like talking about these issues. Maybe he'll turn up yet.

I'm sure Harvey feels the right place to have this discussion is over at the Hiarc forum where he has complete editorial control. lol

if you did not know you might think he was just a hobbyist like yourself. The fact that Albert Silver frequently(?) writes for ChessBase (not only on computer chess, see this for example) is of marginal import until you can show that this actually colours his views on TalkChess. Even then, it would ...

Where has Harvey gone.

Answering such direct questions should be easy for a correspondences IM. Perhaps he thinks he has 3 days to respond.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uvt83YWWWY

Wild speculation, lol. I think not...Your naivety is quaint...many posters ... are discussing engine rating lists skewed by the men ... receiving gratuities.

mon Dieu , this evidence is crushing.

This is not what I wrote, please do not add emphasis, punctuation or remove words when you quot me ...

Wild speculation, lol. I think not. At the supermarket down the street, store managers get tickets to Broadway plays from soda distributors in order to get prime display space for their product. (These are very big name soda companies, how do you think they got so big and stay that way?)

Your ...

Wild speculation, lol. I think not. At the supermarket down the street, store managers get tickets to Broadway plays from soda distributors in order to get prime display space for their product. (These are very big name soda companies, how do you think they got so big and stay that way?)

Your ...

Actually, you would be surprised how little it takes to bribe some people. A few free Rybka engines, a personal email form the programing god himself. The next thing you know, you are in the fanboy club.

Perhaps you didn't intend to come across as quite the expert on the subject, but I have never ...