Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 09:58:38 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 12:10:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >I just posted an answer to Enrique about the real reason behind these >medodramatic gestures of resignation after a couple of moves, and do it here >again because I am more and more convinced that what we have here is the >beginning of an opera of political correctness, that, as so many times, will >hide other, less glamorous motives. The real motives are panic to lose to the >machine. On the contrary, Jeroen played because probably he felt he had good >chances to win, as a matter of course, being a great player as he is. But this >Boombom, to whom he has won? Which are the credentials of the guy? Surely there >are not books about his best games. In short, he is just one more IM in the pack >but now he got publicity and a sense of arrogant satisfaction just not playing, >avoiding to lose and even more, getting an aura of heroe in some quarters. Great >shot with almost no cost. Shame... One more show of low motives and despicable >human arrogance gettying cover under the cloths of great gesture. Boooo... >Fernando Dear Fernando, These Dutch mammas' boys are lacking in courage. It appears that this is a portent of the future Fernando. That is why I don't like over the board play with rated players. They don't want to play you if you have no rating and they are too chicken to play a computer that they know they will lose against. I say to hell with them and just keep on making the computers stronger. Man is not much higher than an ant. Our arrogance is understandable though. If we did not think that we are superior then we would be just one of the thousands of other species on the planet. We would have no motivation to use that incredibly sophisticated brain and would sink to the level of the other animals. As puny as our intellect is, we still are the smartest bastards on the face of the earth. Those of us who accept the notion of a Creator know that we are just pieces of crap floating on the sea of existence. It doesn't really matter though because as Popeye the Sailor Man says, " I am what I am and that's all what's I am". I think that the Dutchmen should reverse their decision to not play Fritz SSS and be slaughtered like men. They should not crawl into a hole and be scorned. I know that the Dutch are brave people and this is a disgrace to their entire nation. Tim Frohlick
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