Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:20:38 04/22/01
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Dear Thorsten: I agree and share with you many points concerning the quality or non quality of life according to how look at it, justaas a bunch of matter and the drive to win or like something erlse. Nevertheless, I do not undeerstand the sense to cope all that inside the narrow field of chess. Chess is just a GAME. A game is something to get fun. A game is just a game. Game: activity subjected to rules in order to produce an entertainning competition between two sides and nothing more. Of course there is the side of the producer and organizers of the game, an enterily different issue to that concerning the gamers. Here is the hole where chess fall into which you call materialism. In the other side of the hole there is a little chest with some money inside. With that money you pay the bills and you keep alive and kicking. That's what programmers -coomercial ones- and company owners, etc does. And for getting that little chest with some bucks they do anything: they organize competences between computer not because they are interested in AI issues, but to unleash a torpedo attack to other programs and get the most possible of the tiny market. And then comes progs made of just computing power in order to outsearch other progs. But in MY side, the consummer side, I say "go to hell". I just want some fun when I have nothing else to do. Nothing better, I mean. In my side fun is the only thing. And so in my side I cannot care less about what the other side does to get his little chest because I have always the option to choose another stuff. In my side I am not even touched by the materialistic approach. I just load in my PC a good, entertainning program. Tiger, Cstal, Mchess, Wchess, there more than the number I need. So, not neccesary to give battle to materialist people in the chess field. Too little, too few, too unimportant. Just a bloody game. My best Fernando
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