Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 09:08:50 10/13/97
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On October 13, 1997 at 11:51:17, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On October 12, 1997 at 19:48:32, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>I am really amazed reading the post where ICCA executives are almost >>accused of some kind of plot and/or trying to sell people to third >>parties and/or trying to become rich just exploiting poor programmers , >>and all this agressive noise just because they ask 1000 bucks to those >>commercial programmers that want to be part of the party in Paris. Note reference to 'commercial programmers' > < lots snipped > > >>I don't believe 1000 is too much money to get the chance to get a good >>position and then to use it as advertising. Even if you cannoit get the >>first prize, you always can say that your program got a point against >>this or that other program, as Chris has made once with CST and Genius. >>Or that your program got the fastest winning. Or that your program was >>the best, provided his slow hardaware. Or that you won the prettiest >>game of the tournament. Or this or that. I don't know any program that >>ever has been in a tournament that has not got specious reasons to >>proclaim that very same tournament as a wonderful motive to buy it. >>So, if this kind of tournament becomes, as ever, a good launching >>platform for almost any guy that goes there -like in movies festivals >>theses days-, it seems to me that paying 1000 cannot be reasonnably >>considered as abusive. After all, we are talking of COMMERCIAL guys, not >>amateurs, not poor genuses, not deprived people. Note reference to 'COMMERCIAL programmers' > >Commercial guys ! aha. Like Stefan-Mayer Kahlen, Mark Uniacke, Chris >Whittington ? I get well fed up with this discriminatory labelling that keeps plagueing one post after another. Somehow all commercial programmers are the same. They all MAKE MONEY. They tell LIES. They are BIASED. When they say things you can disregard it because its for MONEY. So, congratulations, put all these identical commerical programmers into one box and make discriminatory remarks about them. I'm sure Stephan and Mark and Chris and Ed are all just identical. I mean they are all the same age, and they all work only for computer chess, and they all make the same money and they all have blue eyes and they all speak Italian. So we can label them with a sign: Commercial, maybe you could substitute Jew or Nigger or Businessman or whatever you want. Anyway it doesn't matter, its no problem to make them pay $1000, after all they are COMMERCIAL. Hmmm ? The rest of us, of course, are pure and clean and enlightened and we would never lie or be biased or even try to make that dirty money. Also we don't beat our wives or run over hedgehogs, probably we don't drive or pollute at all, we just ride bikes and work as lumberjacks and we're ok. Well bollocks to the lot of you. Chris Whittington > >Chris has not released any version since anno domini 199x whatever... >Mark has a full time job in a non-computerchess business >Stefan is also not the BIG commercial guy you would expect. > >> Maybe what some people want is that ICCA does not organize nothing at >>all. > >They could organize it with more feeling for the belongings of the >participants.
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