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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 07:34:34 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 09:43:17, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 08:58:56, Tony Werten wrote:
>>>>
>>>>And the fact that this is a thesis in 2002 gives you a nice idea about the
>>>>current level of duch universities as well.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure what to read into that... are you being sarcastic?
>>>Or are you pointing out that it's a thesis and not a dissertation?
>>
>>Sorry, I was being sarcastic. The thesis has no depth and contains completely no
>>news. The complete contents can be found in other thesis or publications.
>>
>>I know a thesis is called a "transference of bones from one grave to another"
>>but for something written in 2002 this is really one of the worse examples I
>>have seen.
>>
>>And the supervisor, who is supposed to be an expert didn't notice/care/know.
>>Well, what can you expect, the guy is an architect.
>>
>>Tony
>
>I had the same thought, copy-paste from net and you have a thesis, amazing...
>
>Looks more like an article for the sunday paper than a thesis.
>
>-S.

Ok guys, I'm sure you are kind enough to show us your thesis, so we can discuss
them a bit? And your chess engines, I'm sure they have everything mentioned in
Mr. van Kervinck's Thesis built in, right?

Always remember Rule One.

Andy



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