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Subject: Re: DF to have unfair advantage against Kramnik?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 16:44:32 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 19:07:52, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On June 03, 2002 at 18:15:31, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>
>>Rolf, I mostly understand what you have been saying.  Sometimes your posts are
>>so lengthy that the key idea gets lost.  Here's a key quote from you:
>>
>>
>>"I do not want to eliminate all technical or programming tricks... The only
>>thing I want to exclude is the rather primitive copying and pasting of complete
>>results from human chess."
>>
>>
>>This is IMHO a reasonable stance.  Some people may have a different opinion than
>>yours (I'm not sure of my own view on this topic), but your statement does NOT
>>seem unreasonable to me.
>
>Roy, honestly, I wouldn't be happy if people followed me out of my good
>propaganda or stuff like that. You are right, I write a little reflection and I
>expect or hope someone clever enough to understand the main points. The reason?
>I have found out, that people would never ever like to change their opinions
>because they make life easier, because thinking seems to be real hard working.
>So I wait until someone discovers by his own thinking what could be hidden in my
>postings. That is a more Socratian method. I'm not that perfect already to hide
>my points in aphorisms. Thank you very much however!
>
>Rolf Tueschen
>


Of course it is often just human nature to stick to one's opinion regardless of
new evidence or good arguments to the contrary.  I do it sometimes.  I'm sure
there are occasions when you do it.  It may partly be due to the "hard working"
that is thinking, but there are probably ego issues involved too.

Anyway, I may not agree with all your points but I do recognize that they have
been deeply considered and thoughtfully presented by somebody with very
significant intellectual abilities.  :-)




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