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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:49:53 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 18:45:01, Sune Fischer wrote:
>On August 20, 2002 at 18:32:06, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>On August 20, 2002 at 18:24:43, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>>All the rules of varies disciplines concerning thesis work I checked at the
>>>>above link allows for theoretical work, which can be a compendium of already
>>>>published work. That's a fact.
>>>Nonsense, what would be the point, anyone could toss together 100 pages in two
>>>weeks, why would you need a year for that?
>>You could toss 100 pages together in 12 seconds, if you were quick enough with
>>cut and paste.  However, it will hardly be worth reading.  Have you seen this:
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?246441
>>?
>
>Yes I saw it, I was very glad to read it.
>If he already knew it wasn't a major intellectual achievment, then he shouldn't
>be too 'emotional damaged' from my attack :)))
>That makes me very happy actually, it seems we even agree about the *standard*
>not being super high.

In my view, he is overly modest.  Please show me a Master's thesis on computer
chess that is more valuable than the document he produced.

>He is in luck studying in that university I think, I hope he has to take some
>killer courses to make up for it, hehe ;)
>
>>BTW, your email alias is broken (apparently).
>
>Oh, the yahoo you mean, yeah that is just a spam account, don't post there, use
>fischer@heaven.dk instead.

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