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Subject: Re: Are we nuts ?!

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:12:20 02/11/01

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On February 11, 2001 at 09:27:15, John Wentworth wrote:

>Most people in this forum have purchased at least a few chess programs and have
>commented on how they do against another program. Are people in here spending
>money on software just so they can play it against another program or are we
>actually using it?  I would willing to bet that the majority of us play the
>programs only 10% of the time or less, I certainly could be wrong though.
> I have read in here of people wanting to know what kind of PC to buy just so
>they can have a tough chess program, incredible!, someone is actually going to
>spend perhaps thousands of dollars just so they can have a tough chess program.
>
>  I have spent a lot of money on this stuff too, I look back on all this money
>and think what I could of done with it,

and with the time we spent, that's even worse

> I must be nuts!

Yes, you are. Me too. It's curable, though.

> Like the old saying
>goes, a fool and his money are soon parted. Oh well, I guess I'll go see how
>much they are getting for Fritz6a now  :(

Put them all on fire. Tempting, no?

Enrique



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