Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:17:36 06/02/98
Hi all: It seems, as Bert Seifrits has informed in his site, that SSDF people is ready to go; at most they would be there until end of the year. Sure if that happens a lot of people will think was due to the attacks they suffered from many, but I wonder if that would be just the catalist of an old, long term process. Don't you think, don't you feel or smell that all this, the entire chess computer community, is in the fringe of absolute boredom with things like how they are now? Aren't we all stuck in a cluster of ideas and behaviours that now does not fits with current realities? List of SSDF, by example, sounds to me like something full of sense when advances in strenght were the relevant and dramatic issue each year... Were we to get an expert level progranm this year, 1984? Would we see in 1985 a 2200 elo program? Could we get in 1986 a program capable of beating us half of the time? Compare that with the following question: are we going to see a program with 2560 elo instead of 2540 next month? SSDF list and his peoolle was born in the infancy of chess comnputers and so has lost hgis charm,. I imagine the people there doing the test more by inerce than by love or interest. The great question has been answered and the kick is no more. Maybe by the same reason, messieurs les moderators, we are here writting more and more non chessic threads; maybe is just a way to get out of a somewhat suffocating stuff. Or maybe is just me. That's the reason I am writting this: I want to know if it is just me that got deadly bore or there are more plople that share the same feelings. fernando
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