Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 14:02:44 05/17/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 23:30:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: (snip) >I don't have any great respect for a GM above anyone else. Frans has a _lot_ >of blood, sweat and tears invested in the software program named "Fritz". Don't >_ever_ forget that. I can't say whether he has sweated more than the typical >GM. But I am pretty sure he hasn't sweated _less_. So Frans deserves the GM's >respect just as much as the GM deserves Frans'. quid pro quo. The draw was a >mutually respectable outcome. Excuse me, this goes too far. You can't compare a GM, a genial chessplayer, with a programmer. A chessplayer is in the spheres of sports, art and science. He's living there. Ok? Whereas the programmer might be a real good scientist but he can't compete in sports and art. The program perhaps could create good chess. But that is a difficult question. Don't fantasize that programmers live sports like a GM just because he's watching and/or operating the machine's performance. Of course a programmer also has deep emotions in such cases. But he's _not_ playing himself! Still I would agree that the secondary feeling of joy and pride and nervous tension could be very satisfying. But it's still a difference if you sit there yourself and do play your own game.
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