Author: Michael Neish
Date: 21:00:06 12/17/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 15:32:44, robert michelena wrote: >My main conflict is with people who continue to insist that average strength >players can defeat commercial programs playing at the strongest setting. We've all understood your point clearly enough from the beginning. Do you understand your own point? Then why do you keep repeating it? >Now, I realize that for many who post here, english is not their main language, >so I have been understanding. Obviously the only reason why you haven't convinced us all yet is that we all speak funny English!! >There are those who insist that human players of average, non master strength >can do so on a regular basis. If you agree with that and if the players in the >AEGON tournament were average players, then so be it. I have nothing to add to what other people have said here. All I say is that if you look back on previous posts, one of them gives two examples from a previous Aegon tournament of players under 2,000 beating top programs. Another thing is that maybe you should learn to listen to people and take on board their arguments instead of rejecting them because they are distasteful. If you don't do this you will fail miserably in your career. Many people have spent a long time replying to you, including strong programmers who would better spend their time answering legitimate questions from others concerning important programming ideas. You are lucky to have attracted a lot of attention from these guys. To them I say please stop wasting your time here. You will never convince RM that he's wrong anyway, and this thread will just continue to zigzag aimlessly across the screen. Why not do something better with your time? I don't know, read a few books, raise children, write a program that can beat only GMs ... :) Thanks, Mike.
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