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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