Author: José Carlos
Date: 09:43:47 06/24/02
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On June 24, 2002 at 12:27:40, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On June 24, 2002 at 12:03:09, José Carlos wrote: > >>On June 24, 2002 at 08:38:51, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >> >>>Hi Bob, >>> >>>you made really a good work for amateurchess and persons which have questions. >>>And this now hundrets of years. >>> >>>I hope you have a long time (future) interest on computer chess, I mean I will >>>also in the next year write a chess program and need your help. >>> >>>A good example for professionals. >>>But the most have only interest to make mony and not to help other programmers. >>> >>>That`s computer chess, unfortunately! >> >> That's life, not only computer chess. Everyone wants to make money from his >>job. Don't you make any money at all from your job? >> >> Regards, >> >> José C. >> >> >>>Best >>>Frank > >Hi José, Hi Frank, >I have no interest to make money with computer chess. >With computer chess :-) > >It's my hobby! Exactly. That's my point. People depend on their proffessional success in order to get money for a living. My answer was pointed to your sentence "A good example for professionals. But the most have only interest to make mony and not to help other programmers." Now think of your own job -I don't know what it is, but hopefully you do ;) -. You want to be good in your job for not being fired. If you can do something others can't, you'll be more valuable to your company; they'll pay you more and make your life easier. If you teach all your secrets to the others so that they can do it as well as you, but they also can do other things you can't, you'll probably be worthless to your company... and fired. This is a competitive world. Computer chess is a very hard area for being a proffessional, harder than most other areas. Computer chess has many talented amateur programmers kicking proffesionals, sharing ideas and source code, etc. Just imagine someone would create cars and give them for free, and then a lot of people get interest in free-cars and start working together to create cars as good as the "commercial". Car companies would lose a lot of income -> a lot of people would lose their jobs. Then, just then, imagine someone complaining about "proffessional" car-builders not sharing knowledge... I also like to see the profis here in CCC, but I understand they keep their secrets well hidden... They need money to eat! José C.
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