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Subject: Re: MOD: Tone it down please...Re: let me restate it once again

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 03:07:09 12/17/99

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On December 16, 1999 at 21:16:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 16, 1999 at 18:44:28, robert michelena wrote:
>
>>The gentleman you refer to is a USCF master.  I have no trouble accepting that
>>such an individual can occasionally defeat a commercial program.
>>
>>But it is another thing altogether to say that an average player can do so.
>>(my definition of average player would be a USCF rated player under 2000 ).
>
>
>I believe the original statement was "no non-GM player can beat a commercial
>program at its strongest setting."  Are we now modifying this to "no player
>under USCF 2000 can beat a commercial chess program"???


Worse, it was this:

"Oh no, not again!!  Let's not start the same issue.  Unless you are a certified
grandmaster, please don't insult our intelligence by suggesting that you can
"occasionally" beat a top commercial programs!"

J. ;-}



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