Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 11:37:53 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 14:31:10, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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. That wouldn't be sociology, but tragedy, Greek kind of. > Very sad. But, of course, we, human beings, are a very sad bunch of monkeys. >We already know that, is'nt, Enrique? I don't, definitely not. Now that I think of it, this wouldn't be sociology either, but café talk, the best kind there is. Cheers, Enrique >Fernando
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