Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:31:27 06/20/01
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On June 20, 2001 at 14:29:02, Mark Young wrote: > >hypocritical: Meaning Two faced or insincere, or Having double stadards, being >artifcial or disingenuous, I know exactly what in means. No offence, but I find >your arguments in this matter to be just what I have said. > My webster's doesn't say "two faced or insincere". It simply means to say one thing and do another... to tell your kids drinking is bad, then go out and get smashed, to tell your kids smoking is bad, then fire up a cigar, to tell your kids an automobile is a privilege to drive, not a right, and then go out and almost run someone off the road because he pulled out in front of you. Those are hypocritical statements/acts. >I admire your stubbornness, and your intelligence, it is obviously of the >highest order, but I think you will go to any extreme to maintain your point of >view. Even if this means contradicting your own logic and standards that you use >to counter others points of view. Where have I done that? I think computers play like GMs at blitz, because I have watched (Crafty, for example) them play a GM like Mecking and win 19 of every 20 games they play. Ditto for other GMs. Of course, there are players like Roman, who is fairly low on the FIDE list (just over 2500) but who gives computers hell... And that is the point I have stuck to for years. A gm plays "chess" and he gets into trouble frequently. He plays "anti-computer chess" and things change in a terrible way (from the machine's perspective). I don't see anything _inconsistent_ in what I have said at all. I believe that I am better able to make this judgement than many in this argument, simply becuase I take the _time_ to talk to the GM players at length. Rather than simply saying "wow" when a computer wins. And I know enough about the positional aspects of the game to see and understand the machine weaknesses, of which there are _many_ to see and understand... Some can't see the trees for the forest, others can't see the forest for the trees. In this case, _both_ must be seen to understand.
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