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Subject: A narcisistic reflection

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 10:05:00 12/05/05


When Ribka author came here to ask for beta tester, lot of voices suggested this
guy was posting a troll because he said Ribka had defeated a big commercial
name. I simply followed my rule of giving trust to anything and to anyone if it
has NOT been demostrated that the guy deserves suspicion and so I asked the
engine and became probably the first guy here that experienced the uncredible
strenght and novelty of this engine. And I posted about that. Now that is
history. Ribka is the new kid in the neighborhood. Everybody want to have it.
Even me, a chess nobody, received several email asking the engine.
So, what a lesson can you get from this?
First, be confident of what is said to you instead of putting at once a pseudo
foxy face of distrust that poison everything.
Second, if you are deceived, it is not your problem. You always can be deceived.
It is not a test of intelligence.
Third, always expect the unexpected.
Fourth; those betting that knowledge is the last word of chess programming will
be proved right, I guess. Thorsten deserves to be recognized for that.

Narcisistic for Once in a While Regards
fernando



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