Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 15:13:30 09/22/98
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On September 22, 1998 at 15:12:58, Larry S. Tamarkin wrote: Hi Larry, I don't mind if you are getting a "little bit out of control" phantasizing the forms of American democracy which seem to be the tasteless highlights of the decade in the world of democracy. I just still hope that a least chess could be a little island free from that. My wish is simple. To make my point quite clear: I don't like at all, how the American president has dealt with his family or the American public, he may have been weak and have done something wrong (by the way in a regard where not many nowaday people could afford throwing a stone without getting a little paler at least). But: I think it is not nearly as bad as what his enemies (among them someone in leading role who would else not even be worth mentioning in *any* public concern, and with a leading juridical comission member hypocritic enough to disregard his own biography of adultery while juding others with a lot of recognizible joy and zeal) meanwhile have made of all that in a spirit of a gutter horizon hardly to be lowered. When I open my (German) newspaper I am forced to read this republican pseudo-democratic slime day by day, and I get sick even from smelling it from far. Please! Spare us the like in chess, find other metaphors and phantasies if possible! Most Europeans, from everyday people to leading politcians do not feel most concerned about what your president did (it was bad enough), but about how a big part of the American political public and how many pseudo-democratic media show theselves endlessly avaricious for lowest forms of gutter communication, as long as someone might stare (or starr) at it. Finding healthy laughing very welcome else, I don't find anything even raising a smile in what the hell is going on over there... So please understand: I have to beg for some mercy for my European soul! Please, please, please: spare us the way America deals with that. It's rather the digustable beginning of the end than the beginning of democracy. And what originally meant some relief for me: It may have to do even less with chess than with democracy... Kind regards from Dirk >Here's an idea for a new Chess Program personality, exploiting the current >fascination with what's going on in America; > >The Clinton; when you make an aggressive move threatening one of its pieces, >it says, 'I did not have sex with that chess program!' > >When it gets a big >positional advantage, a screen pops up showing a picture of a cigar and >telling you what it would like to do to you! > >When you get a winning >position, it says, 'I've admitted I made a mistake, I apologized for it, and >now I'm ready to get on with the business of this game' > >When you have it backed into the corner it starts repeating the position and >says, 'I'm reverting back to my previous answer on this issue' > >Occasionally a counter-program called the 'KStarr' appears in a popup window and >makes an attacking move against 'The Clinton' > >The Clinton Q occassionally attacks with great venum, but in generally moves >around a lot less... > >Your own Queen, the 'Lewinsky' keeps going after the Clinton King, but then >doesn't continue the attack! > >It talks to Conan O' Brian on 'Late Night, with Conan O'Brian - Its a talking >head! > >Maybe I'm getting a little out of control... :) > > >More quotes welcome! > >mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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