Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 14:31:18 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 16:40:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: Just a few comments. <snip> >The crafty-lovers aren't going to convince the crafty-haters of anything. The >crafty-haters are not going to convince the crafty-lovers of anything. The >discussions simply drag on and on without ever solving a thing. I've noticed that most discussions revolve around stalemate, where there's no movement at all. But most importantly, no intention of adjusting your viewpoint when confronted with fact. As long as every opinion is impervious to logic then nothing changes. The phrase "IMHO" works better than the deflector shield from the Enterprise. >We have just reached a milestone on our ftp site, which I discovered about a >week ago. If you take every hostname that has ever downloaded a copy of crafty >(I am only counting crafty downloads not tablebase downloads which might be for >other programs of course), extract the hostnames, remove duplicates, the count >is now over 500,000. An amazing number. And that counts about a dozen >major ISP's as one site each (ie aol.com has a few hosts, each host looks like >one download site when in fact, it could be hundreds of different users.) Congratulations, I ready to download the next version :o). >The point of that is that there are plenty of people that are interested in >using the program, interested in helping make it better, or interested in >suggesting new features which I have included whenever there is time and the >feature is reasonable. The 'negative' discussions don't change my mind about >what I am doing, so they are effectively pointless. Just keep doing what you are doing. >I would personally like to see CCC have much more about 'computer chess' and >much less about "crafty is ....". It is somewhat out of control, IMHO, and is >serving no useful purpose of any kind... I'm not sure I agree on that. For non-programmers and computer morons like myself it's nice to have a few discussions with little technical content. However, useless discussions (provocations?) about Crafty shouldn't dominate as much as it has recently. I've decided to abolish "IMHO" from my future posts as my opinions are always either humble or honest :o). Best wishes... Mogens
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