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Subject: Re: Giving the guy a lot of flak. was Re: new computer chess effort

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 03:31:59 12/17/99

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Greg's attitude should be, "I don't know about computer chess, but I have an
idea, so I'll run it by some experts to see if it can work."

Instead, his attitude is, "My idea obviously works, you guys don't know what
you're talking about, I didn't come here to discuss it, now who feels like
working for me for free?"

Either way, he did start some good discussion about FPGAs, so it wasn't a
complete loss.

-Tom

On December 17, 1999 at 02:10:19, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>On December 15, 1999 at 14:39:18, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
>>I'm interested in coordinating an effort to build the next
>>world-champion chess program. FPGA technology has advanced since Deep
>>Blue's construction such that replicating its architecture is now
>>inexpensive. [snip]
>
>Don't you think you are being too hard on this guy. I thought he had an
>interesting idea, that may or may not work, but is certainly worth
>investigating. The other responses mostly read like "It won't work. It can't
>work. Don't even think about it.", generally without much evidence. If one were
>into psycobabble, one could ask "What is so threatening about this that it has
>to be rejected without serious consideration ?"



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