Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:55:56 08/06/98
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On August 06, 1998 at 08:05:38, Christophe Theron wrote: >On August 05, 1998 at 17:28:04, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >(snip) > >>b) Or take Christophe Theron: he does not use all his time to develop Tiger >>neither has a developed distribution system, etc, but it would be difficult to >>describe him as just an amateur. > > >No Fernando. The quality of the work is not what makes the programmer >professional of not. I don't see the word "amateur" as being pejorative. You can >call me an amateur, it's okay. > >I have another "real" job, and I make money from it. Then I use this money to >spoil it into my computer chess passion. I buy books, programs, computers to run >automatic tests, airplane tickets to participate to lottery-tournaments, hotel ¡¡Hey, hey Christophe, what you mean with that...?? It was not fair the succes of Junior or what? >rooms and so on... I should add the following to the list: gifts so my >girlfriend forgives me for all the time I spend on my program. :) > >It is true that Chess Tiger 10 is currently being sold in France, but given the >number of units that have been sold, I couldn't even pay the airplane ticket to >come and participate to the french championship. > >So please, I'm a real amateur. > I don't mean that to be amateur is a bad thing, nope; just i wanted to insisti in another way to define the word because, as a matter of fact, some people really suppose that to be amateur is equal to be not very good in what you do and obviously you are pretty good. Eh gbienb, quand es que nos vons a voir Tiger 11 fini? Ques este ce que tu penses de faire jouer le beta que j'ai contre Ivan Morovic? Tu t'anime? fernando > Christophe > > >(snip) > >>fernando
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