Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:57:39 08/04/01
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Well, is "small" is the key, I would say that my country, Chile, is a good candidate as much we are only 13 millions people and nevertheless there is already a young boy -Dieguez, engineeering student- with a chess program in the net -Amyat- and, what is more, in secretive endeavours, there are lots of enginners, nerds and techie people working in his own chess proyects. Probably this is not not so weird a case if you think Chile is a country with a very high ratio people/number of engineners. Same in software. Lot of good mathematicians also. Look at the edition 25 july of magazine Nature a comment about a reasearch made by one of our genuses, Eric Goles. BTW, the very first succesful software in USA for coordination inside companies was "The Coordinator", created by a chilean engineer, Fernando Flores, now back in my country. There are lot of chilean working in MIT and Sillicon valley for the same reason. Problem is chess programming is looked in labs and maths and engineering depts as something of second rate interest. Normally this people does not intend to do too much with his "hobby". They almost hide his thing inside the drawer. Ashamed "to lose time with that". The thing that put people hot here is automation and robotics. Every engineering student try to do his thing. A mad fashion... Fernando
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