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Subject: Re: You better get friendly with the Chinese if the US is incompetent.

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 12:24:59 11/18/00

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Mr Ren Wu,

It is good that you are a patriotic Chinese man.  I am a patriotic American.
We both love computer chess. When countries are at odds with one another it is
not necessary for the the opposite country to understand the others languages
and customs, but it helps.  There are many fine things in China.  There are many
bad things in America.  The reverse is also true.

Many fine intellectuals including Sun Tzu and Confucius hail from China.  Were
it not for China we might not have spaghetti or fireworks or paper.  Maybe we
wouldn't even have chess.

The Australians are afraid of the Chinese.  It seems that what happened with
Japan during WWII is going on with the Chinese at the present.  Chinese
expansionism just refers to a tendency of all empires including China to
maximize their assets. The same can be seen in most social species including
ants and monkeys and canines.

The purpose of the response to Mr. Cummings was to tell him that the United
States of America is not incompetent. Cummings was making an inference that we
were not very capable if we could not decide on who would be the next president.
 A better word for us would be--"competitive".   That is why we are having such
a hard time picking a candidate.

Any person that plays chess has to be a competitive person.  There is no room in
chess for people who have their feelings hurt easily.  The same is true in
computer chess.

Tim Frohlick , Capt. ret. USAF

BTW  I have served with a few men in the USAF who were born in China and rose to
command positions.  I liked most of them.  They served well.


On November 18, 2000 at 12:43:37, Ren Wu wrote:

>Is this whole thing have anything to do with this club? I'd think this is a
>place for people to discuss computer chess.
>
>China experts, and/or Chinese experts, please express your idea in some other
>places.
>
>And please do that *in Chinese*, if you are a real expert on those issue.
>
>Here is one in Chinese
>֪֮Ϊ֪֮, ²»ÖªÎª²»Öª, ÊÇÖªÒ².
>
>by an Chinese more than 2 thousand years ago.
>
>Translate to english, by lost all its beauty, it says,
>
>known is known, unknown is unknown, this is call known.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ren.



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