Author: Peter Davison
Date: 14:51:06 09/07/00
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On September 07, 2000 at 17:14:31, Peter Davison wrote:
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>[Event "Random Outbreaks of Zero-Sumness"]
>[Site "Bored"]
>[Date "2000.09.07"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "Mogens Larsen"]
>[Black "Fernando Villegas"]
>[Opening "Random"]
>[Result "*"]
>
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>1. e4 {Are you writing all this because you didn't get chosen as Rebel Tiger II
>tester, or is there another more profound reason?} e6 {No, Mogens. I did not
>even asked to be one. I cannot be. I have not the time and
>the will to do such a thing. Besides, my PC is an old one, 200 Mhz mmx. Time ago
>I lost my desire to keep pace with this race of speedier pc, each week. And I do
>not have the need to be a tester as much as I am rich enough to buy my own
>programs when they are available, neither I have the ilusion I can be "part" of
>a glamourous software team because I found a glitch in the gui or so. I was just
>remembering what factuaklkly happens each time we get a new program. Or you have
>another experience? Maybe is my bad luck :-)
>Fernando parries with the well-known Hedgehog Defense -0.17}
2. Ke2 {I didn't mean to imply that you're writing out of bitterness, though it
may read as such :o). Just a little surprised about what suddenly sparked this
interest in betatesting and how you do it. Especially right after Schröder's
search for volunteers. I can recall software misbehaving except for Windows, but
I gather that is intentional :o).
Mogens.
PS: I hope this isn't too complicated to comprehend for our zero-sum annotator.
}
2. Ke2 {OFFERS DRAW}
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