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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 08:03:10 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 10:55:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 09:43:17, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I would have to disagree 200%.
>
>It's by far one of the most complete accounts of whats needed in the
>actual implementation of a program, it contains several new ideas,
>describes some known ones that weren't formally described before and
>it's written in a very understandable way.

*) It says 2002 loud and clear, don't know where you get your data from.
*) I don't see any new ideas.
*) The fact that it is readable to the average laymen is not a requirement of a
thesis.

>Also note that the main parts of it date back to before 1998. It
>was only published now because there were a few chapters
>that never quite got finished in the years before. This is why some
>parts may be dated now.

Perhaps and in that case I apologize.
For a 2002 masters it is completely outdated.

>But even discounting the latter, your comments are downright
>insulting and injustified, IMHO.

And I find it very insulting to give a masters degree on the basis of such junk,
some of us actually work hard for that degree you know.

>Maybe I should throw a stack of ICCA journals at you, to learn
>to relativate.

Or maybe you should be a little more objective and less emotional.

-S.

>--
>GCP



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