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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