Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 20:30:09 01/27/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 17:20:59, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Maybe you are right in a degree, but only in the sense a mad academic I knew, a >patetic guy of the math department in my faculty, a man that finally wrote a >book about "The importance of Water for Navigation". You have discovered the >same, or almost. Yes, there are childish behaviour here, but remember, this is a >childish site. Here a lot of people get liberty to his most childish aspect. Or >you believe it is really serious or proper of adulthood to expend hours talking >of chess programs? Of course, there are pople like me who actually get *paid* to do it, but I'll stop talking about that -- I don't want to embitter Larry Tamarkin. ;-) >This is like in any sport: once you have take off your normal >cloths and put over a short and get a ball, you are ready for behaving like a >child. You are ready to smash your best friend in order to avoid he will get a >point for his team and you are ready to sheer like crazy if your team score. Actually, I'd LOVE to be playing some futbol (instead of chess) right now, but there's a foot of snow on the ground here and I'd just end up losing my soccer ball until spring. :-( >Etc. And this is a place where we do exactly that: we are not anymore scientist, >writers, accountants, semiologists or biologist: we are just a bunch of kids >playing with some marvellous toys. If we had to be like adults in the middle of >this game, half or more the charm would vanish. So let them resign, cry, fight >and whatever. It is part of the fun. I am just preparing my own next number for >this soap opera. I want to be part of the drama. Why not. So, if you does not >agree with me, I announce right now my resignation to this forum. ROTFLMAO!!!! Hilarious! Please don't "leave", Fernando -- I'm enjoying your posts more and more all the time! -- Steve Lopez The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
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