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Subject: Re: A narcisistic reflection

Author: Zheng Zhixian

Date: 10:07:58 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 13:05:00, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>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

Heh I thought it funny that the guy who has being preaching the line that engine
strength is not important because they are all too strong anyway ends up as the
guy who basically starts the mad rush for a super strong engine.

:)



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