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Subject: Re: Still Missing the Point [even more so now]

Author: Hans Gerber

Date: 14:30:31 05/17/00

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On May 17, 2000 at 15:07:35, Adrien Regimbald wrote:

(snip)

> You might say
>that these people should seek help or whatever (I am not going to disagree ..
>strong chess players tend to be extremely off-center) but these are the group of
>people with which you wish to play games, and as such, you need to cater to
>them, no matter how unreasonable they seem.
>
>
>Regards,
>Adrien.

Adrien, this point should become a central topic here in CCC. I am always
surprised how badly the computerchess experts in special write about
chessplayers. Psychologically very interesting because they hate the weaker
sides of humans while they are humans themselves. They don't realise that they
do as if they wanted to be machines themselves. Unconsciously...
What would they lose if they would accept that machines by definition could
never be compared with humans and in special genial chessplayers.

The experts here seem to be unaware of the genius alone that you must have born
with if you want to remember all the opening details and principles in chess.
Chess is very concrete and therefore you must know thousands of such principles
and tricks.

I would also like to lead your attention to a difficult question. That of the
personality of human beings. I would be very careful in calling someone
off-center, if you mean _more_ than just a statistical fact. It's a difficult
decision whether someone is off-center or just on the right spot of truth, but
at first sight it looks strange. BTW that's the reason why I write about me
being surprised by the many short-cut declarations you can read here in CCC.
Could you explain that atmosphere?


Hans



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