Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:32:40 12/28/99
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On December 28, 1999 at 12:14:14, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. That's depends of what dou you do with them. I only play them, so for me the only serious measure of strenght -right or wrong- is my playing. Nevertheless, I recognize, as I said in a post above, that I was taking my weakness for strenght of the program. So my measure is serious but unuseful... seriously idiot. > > > >> 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. > Hahahaha, well, maybe some people here would do that. >Sorry for the sarcasms. I apologize, but ask yourself if you don't deserve them >a little bit. > >Just a little bit. You are right. I deserve a little bit of it. One of these days I will lose against Chess challenger 7 and I will say that it is a top program....:-) I suppose it is an unconconiuos way to soften somewhat the sad meaning of defeats... > Fernando > > Christophe > > >>fernando, still waiting Tiger.
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