Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:28:02 04/21/98
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On April 20, 1998 at 21:34:09, Joe McCarron wrote:
>On April 20, 1998 at 02:29:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 20, 1998 at 01:43:08, Georg Langrath wrote:
>>
>>>It was really answers on my message about my wondering why there are so
>>>few women interested in computerchess. However I really will emphasize
>>>that I never think it depends on that men are more clever. I myself feel
>>>kind of stupid when I measure how many seconds it takes for my different
>>>chessprograms to solve a mate for example. For this and similar problems
>>>I can spend hours and hours. And honestly I seldom play real chess on
>>>all my chesscomputers nowadays. When I do this my wife often read books
>>>how to take care of children, religious problems, political books and
>>>fictions etc. She keeps company with our children while I am doing
>>>meaningless experiments with my chessprograms. I am not very proud of my
>>>priority. I sooner feel that it is kind of stupidness in the
>>>y-chromosom. But I have very fun with all my chesscomputers. Thank you
>>>Ed.
>>
>>I suppose it's the secret of the success of humans.
>>
>>One half (approx.) does useful and sensible things. So there can always
>>be another generation. So people don't kill each other too much.
>>
>>The other half does stupid things (I mean really stupid sometimes), but
>>in the end it turns out to be useful too (a kind of miracle).
>>
>>Each half does not really understand what the other half does. So it
>>shouldn't work at all.
>>
>>But each has something special built in the BIOS. A kind of sympathy for
>>the other half.
>>
>>And this is enough to make everything work fine (well, nearly).
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>George that was a funny post :)and Christopher along your lines its
>womens fault men do stupid things! In evolution they sexually
>selectedthe men that would rather tinker around with chess programs than
>do things with a more immediate impact on there lives and society. On
>the otherhand men shoudl take credit for sexually selecting the females
>with the common sense. (George and his wife are a perfect example of how
>this perpetuates itself.)
I didn't say anything like that.
You are giving here your opinion. Not mine.
Christophe
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