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Subject: Re: Sargon V: from 486-33Mhz to Pentium 266 Mhz.

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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