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Subject: Re: What I Register...

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 12:21:34 10/15/00

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On October 15, 2000 at 11:59:53, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Dear Thorsten:
>Let me clear a couple of things:
>a) I am very calm about this issue. I am not a man to become irated by these
>things. Not for almost anything in fact, except noise and bad music.

me too.

>b) I was just registering the fact that you, in the very title of the post,
>announced we were not seeing anything.

right. not many posts about gambit-tiger winning french championship
like hell.
still not many posts register that gambit-tiger plays dutch championship
like hell.


>c) I do not say tiger or whatever program is like sargon. I was just giving an
>example of how old certain techniques are and how speculative they were and are.

good.

>I am sure that Tiger is beyond comparison in terms of sophistication.

aha.

>d) I do not proyect nothing. I have no bad feelings of any kind about you. I do
>not judge your person, just I make a comment about just a sentence.

right. but you seem to project something that is not there.
i do not attack whoever. only say: hey folks - look !


>e) I am not a beam counter. How could I be one if I scarcely understand what do
>you mean by that? I believe it is kind of derogatory terme invented by Chris W.
>or by you and maybe has an utility as a weapon, but not real value in serious
>discussion.

words have meaning. bean-counters count too much.
they don't see chess as the target anymore, but POINTS.
but chess is about chess. and not about points.


>f) Of course I would love to see more program behaving like Tiger, with nuances
>and variations. I have not interest in keeping things as they are now. I am not
>a programmer, I do not sell programs, I am not a friend of any programmer, -but
>I have good feeling for all them- , so I have nothing to defend about how things
>are by now.
>In fact, my comment of your comment was absolutely deprived of every deep reason
>to exist, save the casual desire to just make a comment. Maybe it was not a good
>comment. So you think. OK. But please, do not engage in psych reasoning about
>that. Just a comment. A silly commnent perhaps. In a cold blood  comment. A
>comment en passant. A nothingness.

wer augen hat zu sehen, und ohren zu hören, ... might see: the animal has a
name: Gambit-Tiger.




>My best wishes
>Fernando

yes.



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