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Subject: Re: Tord!

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 09:11:56 02/23/06

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On February 22, 2006 at 13:26:22, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 22, 2006 at 11:59:02, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>Time to put away your commitment issues already and sign up!! :)
>
>Unfortunately it isn't just a question of commitment, but also
>of motivation.  Playing in an OTB tournament where you meet
>the opponents face to face and can go out and have a few beers
>together at the end of the day is great fun, but marathon on-line
>events are just so depressing.
>
>I have thought about it today, and more or less decided that I
>don't want to play, or at least not to operate my program myself.
>Finding an operator could perhaps be an option.  I would probably
>be able to drop in and have a look at the games occasionally, but
>I would be absent most of the time.  The obvious disadvantage is
>that it would make the tournament less attractive for the other
>participants.  It isn't fun to play a long game against a program
>not operated by the author.
>
>If somebody has a fast dual or quad (a quad is no better than a
>dual, because my search still only supports two threads) and would
>like to operate Glaurung, please contact me, and I will consider it.
>If someone has any viewpoints for or against non-author operators,
>please post them here.
>
>Tord

Hm, let me recap this to look if I got it correctly.
You search somebody to operate your brand new version of Glaurung because you
are to lazy to do operate your beautiful chess engine on your brand new Dual on
a weekend it will snow all day?
;)

regards
Andy




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