Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 15:15:36 05/26/02
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On May 20, 2002 at 14:50:05, Russell Reagan wrote: <snip> > >Bob is easily an "expert" >on computer chess. You could rightly refer to him as a computer chess >"professional", since Crafty is a large part (I assume) of what his job as a >professor has entailed over the years, along with other computer chess programs. > <snip> >Russell I imagine Bob differently. I see him as a harried graduate school professor advising a bunch of nerd graduate students each trying to get a degree without doing any work. Bob probably has no peace at all, the way it looks to me. They are probably constantly knocking at his door or chasing him down the hall wanting something. He probably has to HIDE from them just to get any peace at all. Unfortunately, universities in Alabama are under a lot of financial pressure. In fact, the State of Alabama seems close to bankruptcy. The Computer Science Department probably has to work on all kinds of undesirable projects just to keep enough money flowing in. What is needed is a big chess grant from someone like those sponsoring the big chess tournaments. Bob
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