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Subject: Re: Ches and science fiction.

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 14:34:54 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 13:30:56, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>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

Well, you too has given me a new insight as much I never considered the
posibility also the revolutionaries are part of the world, maybe even a creation
of the super computer in order to stirr things a little bit or something. Well,
a second part comes, so we wil see...
Abrazos
Fernando



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