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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 08:20:42 03/30/00

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On March 30, 2000 at 10:56:54, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 30, 2000 at 09:21:45, Dan Ellwein wrote:
>
>>On March 29, 2000 at 18:34:17, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On March 29, 2000 at 10:08:43, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 29, 2000 at 09:33:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 28, 2000 at 21:33:33, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>And what about the glory? At least you don not pay taxes for it :-)
>>>>>>Fernando
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>What "glory"??
>>>>
>>>>The word "glory" has to be a bit extreme to say the least.  But Cray Blitz does
>>>>have a place in computer Chess history.  You probably didn't get a ticker tape
>>>>parade for it though.
>>>
>>>World champion at anything is a bit glorious, I would think.  With billions of
>>>inhabitants crawling about, it's pretty tough to top them all at anything.
>>
>>
>>the "glory" would come from, as the group - Yes would say,
>>
>>'... we love when we play...'
>>
>>[album, Tales From Topographic Oceans]
>
>Well, "glory", this has to depend on how the person who receives the honors
>perceives the honors.  I hardly think that Cray Blitz was a success with the
>team members running around with "glory" on their minds, it has to have been
>from allot of hard work on something they were all interested in doing.
>
>Which oddly enough sounds like you average 'Yes' album, I guess I must be
>aggreeing (damn it!)
>
>Pete

:)



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