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Subject: Re: Computer Chess does pay!!!

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:55:21 03/29/00

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On March 29, 2000 at 19:29:34, James Swafford wrote:

>
>I had an appointment with the CompSci chair at East
>Carolina University today.  I was hoping to "bypass"
>an intro course based on prior experience with computers.
>
>We sat down, and he proceeded to ask me a series of
>questions to gauge my knowledge.  He asked me about
>hashing, pointers, binary search trees, and the like.
>I mentioned that I work on a chess program in my spare
>time.
>
>We talked about computer chess for a while, and....
>as a result, he awarded me 2510/2610/2611 and 3510!
>(That's two intro courses, a lab, and a data structures
>course.)
>
>So, the list of "benefits" I have received from computer
>chess has grown!  By 10 hours of "knowledge credit" to be
>exact. :-)
>
>Just thought I'd share. :-))
>
>--
>James

Your school sounds more enlightened than mine. I skipped the intro class. But
it's a requirement for graduation, so I have to take it. But I'm not allowed to
take it now because I already took data structures. Extremely annoying.

-Tom



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