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

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 07:58:02 04/10/01

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On April 10, 2001 at 01:27:10, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

  Maybe so. However, anytime I feel the need to call them monkeys I just donate
some time to scholastic chess. If I really need a grounding I travel to Chicago
to have some of the bigger monkeys beat on my game. I always seem to learn more
from a loss and realize I'm just a little fish in a big pond. Regards, Brian K.



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