Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 13:06:49 03/13/00
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On March 13, 2000 at 13:09:15, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 Hola Fernando, A great post. Thought provoking. Even though it might be possible to say that "Modesty is the certain Indication of a great Spirit" as proposed by Steele... An illustration and a hypothetical inference: Kasparov is certainly a great chessplayer but not modest, meaning not a great spirit,etc. *** Jorge
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