Author: Daniel Vachon
Date: 09:05:55 06/07/01
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On June 07, 2001 at 11:04:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Looking at the posts about Burgess article it is clear that there is a gross >misconception of what journalism is or should be. Too many scandalized complains >about how light it is, how poor info gives, etc. Too much frowned faces. No >humour at all. Incredible lack of common sense, to say it straight. > >Gentlemen: journalism has many faces according the issue. It can be so serious >as to be capable of killing the career of a President, it can discover >conspiracies, it can be so sharp as to cut the fingers of the guy taking the >newspaper, but also it can be just amusing if the case under inspection is not >the big deal. I supposed everyboyd understood that in journalism, like in any >other activity, there is room for degrees of engagement according situation. >Well, chess computers is not the big deal, sorry, to be engaged soooo seriously. >Clearly Burgess took the job as I would had done in his position: an opportunty >to take a rest and get some fun for me and the readers. Maybe I -or other >journalist- would had avoided some mistakes, but, for the average reader, what's >the difference? What they are losing not knowing that the fritz that defeated DB >is not the current Fritz, neither is DB? > >Come on, do not be so arrogant and narrow minded. Do not fall in the trap of >every specialits in his field. Do not believe your job or your hobby is the >great thing and that everybody must walk around whispering and careful like in >the Vatican. I am really amazed that in between so many post, only three or four >-one of them of them by 16 years old boy- show a solid degree of common sense. >Fernando Being a non-computer chess expert I found the article to be amuszing at best. But I think that if I were to have devoted alot of my time and life to computer chess and then read this article, it would have left a sour taste in my mouth. Computer chess has a small following, and not many people take it seriuously or they just don't care :) But for the ones who do take is seriously i.e. programmers, I'm sure they would like to see an article which has its facts straight. Especially when this article comes from outside our computer chess niche. So is this artilce all bad? Of course not. It's kinda nice to see Deep Fritz being talked about in a newspaper :) but when their are mistakes in an article, they should be fixed. It may not be a big deal to most, but it is probaly is a big deal to those who take it seriously. I give the article 7 out of 10 stars :) Get all the facts straight, and I'll up the rating a few points... :)
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