Author: Detlef Pordzik
Date: 18:56:26 06/02/98
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On June 02, 1998 at 21:26:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 02, 1998 at 19:17:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>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 > > > >not me. I have just as much fun today as I did when my program played >its >first move in 1968. I'm more methodocial probably, and less careless >about >trying too many things at once, but bored? not moi.. :) No, I ain't bored either, as far as chess is concerned ( how could I...steady goin' love affair...) but yet, s o m e of Fernando's comments are worthy to overthink. The major problem, for my personal understanding, is, that the same thing - now has happend to CC scene / industries - as everywhere else in normal life. There's a highly commercial aspect - one should remember this. Including all - negative - facettes. So we got them enthusiasts + lovers of the progs on one side, who MIGHT see things a little single sided once in a while - and the industry of this whole show - on the other side. ELVIS
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