Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:24:06 05/26/02
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On May 26, 2002 at 18:15:36, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >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 It's not quite that bad... First, UAB is a _huge_ place. With over 20,000 full-time employees, a large hospital, clinic, medical school, in addition to the usual academic departments. You are right that I don't spend a lot of time on chess. Most of the time. At times, I spend (or at least in the past spent) a lot of time in "spurts". But then I also get involved in other things and make up for the spurts with a "blank period". But I'm still working on it...
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