Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:14:14 12/28/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 20:08:54, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Christophe:
>It was not necesary to become sarcastic. As a purchaser that is all the time
>buying new stuff -and surely yours when it is available- I am the last guy here
>trying to say to you or to any other programmer that you should go. And you know
>it, but it seems that sometimes you cannot hold your tongue for saying something
>"smart". Or you believe that speaking well of Sargon is some kind of
>profilactic attack on Tiger? You can consider that a complete mistake, but even
>a worst mstake is to believe that I am trying to erase the meaning of your work
>and the works of yours colleagues. That was your impression?
Not exactly.
But given the months of hard work we spend on chess programming, I'm a little
bit sorry that you only test them by playing yourself a few games against them.
This is simply not serious.
> Christophe, it is
>not the case and that is the reason why not always sarcasm is coincident with
>smartness; easily you go wrong. Sharp words get the edge over sound reasonning.
>And it is too easy. You can do better. I can do it in a second. Anybody can. We
>see that here all days. But, for what?
Come on, if I had myself written a post like yours, explaining how good a
program is by just playing myself against it, I would have been lynched
immediately.
Sorry for the sarcasms. I apologize, but ask yourself if you don't deserve them
a little bit.
Just a little bit.
Christophe
>fernando, still waiting Tiger.
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