Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:09:15 03/13/00
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On March 13, 2000 at 12:19:36, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Petulant: Unreasonably ill-tempered or irritable, peevish. > >It seems that distrust and fear of losing face is a real nasty problem with most >GMs. To hell with the GMs, man the torpedoes and lets' just enjoy the >inevitable progress that we see in computer chess. > >Of course, you know that computer chess programmers can be petulant too. > > >Xie Jun is probably a nice person but she is acting like a spoiled-rotten brat >in this contest. Amir and Shay have been entirely reasonable. The duplicity of >the Kasparov Chess center is disappointing--I expect more from the truly great >Russian Kasparov. > >Duplicity: Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior and/or speech. Double dealing. > > >Tim Frohlick Hi Timothy: Very difficult for a high performer on anything to be modest and reasonable. That is more for us, common folk. It was Wilde that said that modesty is the virtue of average, mediocre people? Probably because of that we, in the bottom of our hearts, want to see these guys crushed by computer, our alter egoes... Fernando
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