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Subject: Re: Diep chasing pawns in old good 80's dedicated machines style.....

Author: mike tubbs

Date: 11:38:47 07/07/04

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On July 07, 2004 at 14:10:05, Albert Silver wrote:

>On July 07, 2004 at 14:05:41, mike tubbs wrote:
>
>>On July 07, 2004 at 12:09:14, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On July 07, 2004 at 11:30:24, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>
>>>>It has been a surprise to analyze Junior-Diep game, specially when you have read
>>>>here so many posts by Diepeveen talking of the huge knowledge capabilities of
>>>>his program. Looking at the position before white rook taking "a" pawn it is not
>>>>neccesary to be more than 2000 elo player to see the threats lurking in the
>>>>position, the great activity, open or scarcely hidden, of black pieces, all of
>>>>them aiming at the white king or near it.
>>>>Oh well, said Diep, but a pawn is a pawn....
>>>>If there is a program that can talk of knowledge is or has been Junior. At least
>>>>he really knows to attack.
>>>>Anyway, I got fun. As a lover of dedicated units, I chose to take Diep endeavour
>>>>in this game as a kind of homage to those old machines.
>>>>Very poignant indeed.
>>>>fernando
>>>
>>>You've heard of those nonsense posts on "what if a program like Junior were to
>>>run on the Deep Blue hardware?". Well, this is a similar experiment with the
>>>Chess Challenger software running on hardware that is thousands if not millions
>>>of times faster.
>>>
>>>A lot of people don't realize the meaning of the DIEP acronym, mistakenly
>>>thinking it has something to do with the author's name: Diminished Intellect
>>>Experimental Program.
>>>
>>
>>
>>  Has Vincent Diep Bashing Become Socially Acceptable here at CCC?
>
>
>It's Diepeveen not Diep. I took a poke at the program, not the author. Taking
>pokes at programs is completely normal, just as are posts claiming such and such
>program is the best in the world for all time until the universe explodes.
>
>                                              Albert


Why you Pedantic Ass! A Program can very well be considered an Extention of the
Programmer, we see this in practice all the time, that is why so many authors
get offended when someone makes a insensitive comment about their program. By
the way what Qualify's you to make these smartass comments about Diep? What
program have you written? Pompous ASS.



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