Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 01:11:26 12/12/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 17:46:45, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >Hi Thorsten, > >I apologize if I offended you in any way. no problem. i accept your apologize. >Nothing was further from my mind... >I do however believe that you did not understand the word "flame" in the given >context. might be. > I used it in the sense of "your old object of love", and I _was_ a >little sarcastic there, that is all. I did not use "flame" as in "flaming" or >trolling. i do not see the draw-score phenomena as something to attack chessbase. i would ask christophe or chris or ed or mark or whoever in the same way if he would be the programmer of the program, and the draw-score behaviour would be there: heij - what are you doing there ? it makes your program blind. >Too bad that you are so bigoted, otherwise I believe that we could really enjoy >talking computer chess over beer. thank you djordje. but i am not bigoted i do rarely drink beer. a cup of tea maybe. with milk and sugar would be fine though. > As it is, this could easily end in a verbal >skirmish :) >Closing, permit me to use the following quote from you (referring to Fritz) to >nominate for the Quote of the Year: >"...ok - its on top. amazing, isn't it ! >it behaves like a chess program, it is on top of them, >but it is still a washing-machine. there was once a saying that frans morsch is so genius that he even can make the cpu of a washing machine to play chess. frans needs very few ram, very low speed of cpu and almost no rom to implement a chess program. this was the image i remembered and used again in this context. the relation with the washing machine is not from me. i quoted the image from somewhere. maybe the price is for another guy now :-) >what a genius this frans morsch is. he makes a washing machine emulate chess." >Have you ever thought (I mean _really_ thought) about what makes you so >intolerant of Fritz? (Could it be that it spanks you so badly???) ??? i am not intolerant towards fritz. frans is really able to write small and tiny programs that could run in your washing machine. > >*** Djordje
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