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Subject: Re: Why I rarely visit the CCC

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 13:00:18 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 01:11:18, Chris Kantack wrote:

>A few days ago I posted a few quick comments on my opinion of the Deep Sjeng
>chess program.  I've been really disappointed with the program and was
>interested in getting other opinions.  I knew this message forum had a lot of
>"hard core" chess hackers.  A posting here, I knew would give me some feedback
>from those with a very different point-of-view than my own.

I think the word "sucks", although a good, vigorous American English word (and
with no similarly terse equivalent in English English) caused some offence to
people who spend a lot of time and effort on their programs and think "who ever
put up a statue to a critic?" (Sibelius' words, not mine).

I share your pain, though, about obsession with the latest output from the
silicon factories; I have no time for the "I smashed my Athlon XP 3000+ with a
sledgehammer because the Athlon XP 3200+ is 'best for chess'" point of view. But
chess is most certainly not my life ;)

Alastair



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