Author: Steve
Date: 15:28:27 03/13/00
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On March 13, 2000 at 13:09:15, Fernando Villegas wrote: [snip] >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 Actually, high performers should be MORE modest than the rest of us, because presumably they understand the complexities of chess (or whatever it is they are good at) better than others and therefore should understand how little they really know. It's very kind of you to look for some way of excusing the behavior of egomaniacal GMs, but they don't deserve it.
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