Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:21:52 08/29/01
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On August 28, 2001 at 11:46:37, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On August 28, 2001 at 07:19:32, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On August 28, 2001 at 06:20:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On August 28, 2001 at 05:48:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>i think you're thinking too deep. he simply wanted to get rid of >>>the questions why gromit could get a world title if it is getting sold >>>on the young talents cdrom. >> >>It's not the selling of the new talents cd that should be the point. You can >>argue that the programmer hardly get anything from it. >> >>Follow this link and you have some real arguments why Gromit is commercial. >> >>http://213.191.70.91/shopd/index.html >> >>Tony > >I shouldn't consider someone being a professional chess programmer just because >he'd earned a - more or less - minor amount of money years ago. (At least so I >suspect) >Profession means to me that you are getting a substantial part of your income >through this. This is definitely not true for Gromit. > >Well, the usual discussion! The border between professional and amateur isn't >exactly defined. I thought that was the reason they introduced the semi-professional category, for the non-amateurs. Tony > >In the wmccc event, a very natural definition could be, that everybody who'd >payed the large entry fee for professionells, is a profi; the others are >amateurs. Again, Gromit would fall into the amateur league. > >Uli > >> >>> >>>the easiest way to say that this doesn't matter is by saying that all >>>programs get sold. >>> >>>that's how he explained things in the wrong way IMHO. >>> >>>>On August 28, 2001 at 04:39:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>> >>>>>Now i don't care about gromit in this story, didn't even want to do >>>>>effort to translate the stuff, but the ANSWER from Andreas can mean >>>>>2 things >>>>> a) Bob can claim money from chessbase >>>>> b) Andreas is lying >>>> >>>>c) Andreas doesn't like that it is claimed the title should >>>>_not_ go to Goliath (and not to Crafty either as Bob has stated) >>>>so he is making nonsense points to say it should. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP
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