Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 14:44:00 10/22/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 17:27:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 22, 2003 at 17:21:31, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>I thank you for your worry about my expenses, but I do not consider to squander >>money when I purchase these things. >>Nevertheless you have a point: from a strictly rational point of view nobody >>here, not me either, NEEDS an stronger engine, but I am sure you share with me >>and everybody here a permanent search of even stronger engines althoug we are >>probably beaten by any 80's vintage programs 9 times of ten and 12 times of ten >>by any 90's vintage program. >>That's the nature of a hobby. They are always irrational. Anyway, what else you >>an do with that 30 bucks? Women worthy of the effort are asking lot more... > >It's like buying a Picasso or a Rembrandt. Who needs a Rembrandt, for crying >out loud? > >We buy the chess engines because we know that they will do something beautiful >and breathtaking. How breathtaking are your back levels of Fritz and Junior? At least my $400 dollar 1988 Fidelity chess computer can serve as a kind of "objecto de arto". But an old floppy or CD for which you paid $80 or $150 doesn't age as gracefully, I'm betting. ;) MH > >I'd rather have the chess engine. Except that I could sell the Rembrandt and >get all the chess engines I could ever want. > >So if anyone has any unwanted Rembrandts, they can send them to me.
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