Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 14:31:24 10/17/00
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Thanks Christophe. I had always found it amusing when the "old guard" tries to make judgments on where we are and what is next. At the end of 19th century, the "old guard" proclaimed that physics was just about done, some extra digit left to calculate here and there, and couple small clouds to clear. Or, in early 1950s, the IBM proclaiming that world may need as many as 10 computers. Or, a bit later, IBM turning down the inventor of Xerox machine, wondering why would anyone need to make paper copies. And there are thousands of other such instances, who needs airplanes, who needs phones, who needs cars, who needs mini computers, who needs micros, who could possibly need more than 640K of RAM, etc. Bob's categoric proclamations often give me daja vue of those wise folks, whose experience and knowledge tie their imagination to the ground and they can't see any more what is possible beyond their simple little models. If your program evalutes position as +3 when his program counts wood as equal, for him this automatically means that, should one remove your piece, you will evaluate position as equal, even though it is then clearly lost. And that's the end of the story, and there can't be any other way.
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