Author: Kim Hvarre
Date: 12:58:36 05/05/98
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On May 05, 1998 at 14:52:38, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On May 05, 1998 at 09:11:18, Kim Hvarre wrote: >>Challenge: 1) Become Ply member 2) Learn Swedish. >>Then deal with SSDF, competent from the inside. Do it all and this >>debate would have been rather redundant. >> >>regards, >> >>kim > >Your post looks to me just like another example of an arrogant >statement. >We don't have to learn swedish since chess and even computerchess is >multi-cultural and does not need a special language other than chess. Sorry - some misunderstanding here, perhaps my fault. The Swedish part was only to have the possebility to read the magazine: Ply, nothing else! And BTW - I'm not Swedish... I was nostalgic in a way and somehow advocating for actual joining The SSDF (I think we're around 300 members at the time, but I'm certainly not sure and BTW about to leave myself). >It should happen that people - without beeing members of ssdf - have >also known and had chess machines, more than ONE. And it should be >possible to know about dedicated machines without beeing swedish. >In one point you are right. Those days were easier because you never >heard about critics. I can only speak for the german freaks who started >from the very beginning. And I can tell you, without beeing >ssdf-members, they have also knowledge. people like Frickenschmidt, >Bauermeister, Pordzik, Tschoop, Ketterling, Leupold, Pilz, and and and >have never had any problems to know about dedicated machines or later, >software. Without beeing swedish or beeing member. This wasn't the topic, so while I don't disagree Your comment isn't relevant. regards, kim
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