Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:31:10 09/05/00
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Hi, dear friend: Curiously enough, I have toyed for a time with the idea to write an article about the sociology of this field. By example, try to explain why some countries has a big number of chess programmers and other not. With just a glance you can see, for example, that Germany and Netherland has a very high number of them and are the craddle of many top programs, but other countries equally rich, populated and sophisticated, as Italy, has almost nothing. Nevertheles, what you describe is something more akin to sychology than to sociology. I imagine that the reason why so many people is prepared to suffer all the inconveniences you painted so well is that they are a solitary bunch of people, not neccesarily very succesful in his real lives and so very demanding of anything that gives them a sense to be part of an elite AND of being active in some top notch endeavour. I am sure that many people that beta test -excepting you, I know you well, enrique- very quickly developes fantasies about being important in the creation of the engine itself. I imagine they sayibng to his friends "look, I have been advicing Mr.....to develope his echess engine and I can say that this and that feature of the program was created by me". And they sincerely believe so. Very sad. But, of course, we, human beings, are a very sad bunch of monkeys. We already know that, is'nt, Enrique? Fernando
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