Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:26:53 06/02/98
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On June 02, 1998 at 19:17:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >It seems, as Bert Seifrits has informed in his site, that SSDF people is >ready to go; at most they would be there until end of the year. Sure if >that happens a lot of people will think was due to the attacks they >suffered from many, but I wonder if that would be just the catalist of >an old, long term process. Don't you think, don't you feel or smell that >all this, the entire chess computer community, is in the fringe of >absolute boredom with things like how they are now? Aren't we all stuck >in a cluster of ideas and behaviours that now does not fits with current >realities? List of SSDF, by example, sounds to me like something full of >sense when advances in strenght were the relevant and dramatic issue >each year... Were we to get an expert level progranm this year, 1984? >Would we see in 1985 a 2200 elo program? Could we get in 1986 a program >capable of beating us half of the time? Compare that with the following >question: are we going to see a program with 2560 elo instead of 2540 >next month? >SSDF list and his peoolle was born in the infancy of chess comnputers >and so has lost hgis charm,. I imagine the people there doing the test >more by inerce than by love or interest. The great question has been >answered and the kick is no more. Maybe by the same reason, messieurs >les moderators, we are here writting more and more non chessic threads; >maybe is just a way to get out of a somewhat suffocating stuff. Or maybe >is just me. That's the reason I am writting this: I want to know if it >is just me that got deadly bore or there are more plople that share the >same feelings. >fernando not me. I have just as much fun today as I did when my program played its first move in 1968. I'm more methodocial probably, and less careless about trying too many things at once, but bored? not moi.. :)
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