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Subject: Re: All these XXXX vs. Net/World/Web - waste of time?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:27:10 04/09/01

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On April 09, 2001 at 23:46:30, Brian Kostick wrote:

>On April 09, 2001 at 12:45:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On April 09, 2001 at 07:23:29, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>I don't follow any of these games. It's a little difficult to get statistically
>>>significant number of games e.g. 40-200 games :-)
>>
>>If they give some people a bit of fun, then they are not a waste of time.
>>
>>I don't think that they are meaningful.  But that's just my opinion.
>
>Dann,
>
>  I move in a quote from John M:
>
>>>Fun? Definitely.... especially when "The Web" makes two inaccuracies against
>>>CM8000 and was down by 1.5 after less than 25 moves.... ;-)
>
>>>But "meaningful"...? of course not.... That doesn't mean the marketing boys
>>>won't have a field day with it if CM8000 wins, though....
>
>  I once doubted you when you said The Web wouldn't play soundly. Well if you
>want, I will send you 'shoe shine' money.

I usually wear sneakers.

>It wasn't to hard for me to realize
>your advice had merit.  Yes, play as "The Web" just for fun, I've no need for a
>coronary when they blow it. Regards, BK

What sort of chess game will a trillion voting monkeys play?  Thanks to the
advent of USENET, now we can find out!
;-)

Maybe they'll hit the wrong keys and we'll get a copy of Shakespear instead.



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