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

Author: Anson T J

Date: 09:06:53 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 11:48:15, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 11:35:02, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>
>>>True, so you also want to give masters to all the fans of football or basket
>>>ball that knows _tons_ of stuff about that?
>>>
>>>-S.
>>
>>Nope, only if they are good players. Van Kervinck's is not only a chess fan, he
>>has written a chess engine. (his research)
>>But a lot of good football or basket ball players got their honor accolade by
>>the university the originally played for. Which proofs you wrong.
>
>If you can get a masters by _playing_ football, then that is another joke IMO.
>A masters is of course an intellectual accomplishment.
>
>-S.
>
>>Andy

Yeah! Chess is more than just a sport :-)



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