Author: Marcos Christensen
Date: 20:18:46 05/20/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 22:05:42, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>On May 20, 2000 at 18:09:23, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On May 20, 2000 at 16:51:26, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, my name is Samuel B. Luddite and I disagree with the participation of
>>>computers in national and international tournaments. It is a well known fact
>>>that computers have no soul and , like the animals are just things.
>>
>>To be honest, I have _never_ heard anybody, luddite or not, use this argument. I
>>think that if you substituted the _actual_ arguments GMs use instead of these
>>straw men, this post would look stupid.
>>
>>James
>>
>Mr. Robertson,
>
>This post is designed to be stupid. For Gods' sake man where is your sense of
>humor? Smug decision makers have done some pretty stupid things because they
>would not listen to that little voice of the common man. Wars have been fought
>over stupid things. Forest fires due to "controlled burns" have been set off
>because a person with "superior understanding" ignored others who by his
>estimation knew less.
>
>
>Snobbish individuals with high-horsepower intellects that have the answers to
>the world's problems when they are young soon realize as they age that they
>exist in a very imperfect world.
>
>The best that can be done in many cases is to just make jokes about unchangeable
>situations.
>
>
>Chess is life,
>
>
>Tim Frohlick
Its not my fight, but the antecessor post was pointing that this "jokes" are
not necessary and and exist a bad feeling between human players and computer
chess. This kind of joke wouldnt help resolve the situation.
chess is a game
Kind Regards
Marcos
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