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Subject: Re: Ches and science fiction.

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 10:30:56 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 11:16:05, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>On May 02, 2000 at 08:55:02, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>On May 01, 2000 at 15:42:39, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>Hi:
>>>It is just a bad guess, maybe, but I have the impression that someehat love for
>>>chess and chess computers go toether with love for SC books. Am I wrong or
>>>right?
>>>Fernando
>>
>>Fernando,
>>
>>I am with you, perhaps going in the wrong direction as well.  Anyway, I believe
>>that guys who are interested in electronic chess gotta be interested in SF.  I
>>am :-)  I love Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov... One of my favourite SF books is
>>"City" by Clifford Simak.
>>
>>Just like you, I believe that if someone can anthropomorphise bytes into a chess
>>player, I also believe that that someone will be able to imagine and relive
>>those crazy and beautiful worlds of SF...  BTW, I have just seen a DVD rendered
>>"Matrix" on my comp and loved it! Childish, right?  Nope, I still love it and
>>cannot but see a thin thread connecting my love for computer chess and SF.
>>
>>
>>***   Djordje
>
>Hi Djordge:
>This just to tell how much I despised those guys of Matrix that are so similar
>to any band of idiots with a green uniform and hidden in the jungle. As they,
>these heroes fight for destroying an order, but without realizing that they, if
>succesfull, will give nothing to the rest of the people. Preferable an ilusion
>computer-created than the awful world they fought to get back.
>Fernando

I've never thought of that angle!  Wow.  I see your point.  I loved the story
which I took to be only a very straightforward plot. Because you see, as I see
it, both "bands" belong to one and only world -- that of illusion.  But you have
managed to produce politics out of nowhere!  Thanks for the new insight :-)

***  Djordje



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