Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 11:07:16 01/08/01
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>i think that people have an instinctive urge to associate themselves >with winners. for chess heads, one way to do that is operate a strong >program on a server. for the general population, another way is to >become a rabid fan of a successful sports teams. of course, it isn't >rational. but then much human behavior isn't. Yes, I believe on this also. I don't think anyone enjoys _that_ much watching when computers play against humen (unless some DB-Kasparov or similar). But, if it is a program that _you_ bought running on _your_ computer that _your_ daddy bought and operating on _your_ computer (or non-computer...) account. Yep, that is allmost like _you_ are playing. Then these guys (or gals) probably feel that these victories are somehow their achievements. But when this happens against other computer accounts...insanity... Severi
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