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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 06:42:09 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 09:29:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 09:04:50, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2004 at 06:03:25, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2004 at 01:51:11, Tony Werten wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 13, 2004 at 10:20:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 12, 2004 at 19:46:44, Amir Ban wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On January 10, 2004 at 16:24:59, Jim Bodkins wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>... oh, and we do Mars missions. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It's lucky that Mars is not in Europe or you'd never go there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Just make sure that the Mars mission is scheduled for less than a week and
>>>>>>doesn't coincide with a major holiday.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Amir
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>OR maybe do it _remotely_ so that we don't have to "go there" at all?
>>>>>
>>>>>Hint:  Mars mission has _no_ people on mars.  :)  They are using this new-
>>>>>fangled idea called remote data transmission...
>>>>>
>>>>>hmmm...
>>>>>
>>>>>Perhaps a bad analogy?  :)
>>>>
>>>>If I understood your president correctly, the ultimate goal is for a person to
>>>>actually be there. It seems he values the being there in person much higher than
>>>>being there remote.
>>>
>>>It's going to get incredibly expensive and risky to send _everybody_ to Mars,
>>>not to mention time consuming and troublesome.
>>
>>Everybody, yes. But not everybody has been there remote. The ones who have been
>>there remote seem to think it's important to be there in person.
>>
>
>"think it is important to be there in person."
>
>"were really there remotely because of the cost and time"
>
>Think about it.
>
>What you want to do, and what you _can_ do are not always the same thing.
>
>Same with the ECCC events....
>
>
>>>
>>>Perhaps what we need is a new president to make the _right_ decisions?
>>
>>Maybe you should check up on your local politics. It could be you have a
>>different president.
>
>Not sure what that means.  We've had the same president for 3+ years
>now, most likely we will have the same president for the next 4+ years as
>well...

But it's probably not the same one Sune has, yet he talked about "we".

Tony

>
>
>>
>>Tony
>>
>>>
>>>>Good analogy I think :)
>>>
>>>Hmm, so so :)
>>>
>>>-S.
>>>>Tony



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