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Subject: I'm addicted

Author: Edward Seid

Date: 20:55:10 09/09/01

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For months, I've followed the various threads on CCC.  I also operate
HiddenDragon(C) [Gambit Tiger 2.0], one of the stronger comps on US Chess Live.
I've even exchanged emails with such chess programming heavyweights such as Mike
Leahy(Bookup), Gerrit Reubold(Der Bringer), and Dieter Buerssner(Yace).

I've tried denying it, but now must face the truth...  I'm addicted to computer
chess!!!  This discovery hit me suddenly today.  I've been out of college for
nearly 15 years.  It was back in the day when I first had a taste of FORTRAN,
Pascal, and COBOL.  I haven't thought much about programming at all since
then... until today.  Today, at a Friends of the Library book sale in San
Francisco, I did something completely out of character for me.  For $1, I bought
a book titled 'C for Dummies'.

That's right... a guy who hasn't looked at a snippet of computer code for 15
years, who can barely navigate thru HTML.  I've done it... I've crossed over to
the dark side.

ed seid
operator of HiddenDragon(C) on US Chess Live

PS  After I speed read thru my 'Dummies' book, where do go from there?  Any
other good 'C' books, or programming books in general?  Of course, the final
goal is to program my own chess program.





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