Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 16:04:44 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 17:29:02, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On January 03, 2003 at 17:03:45, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>Mogens, you're calling the majority, by your standards, at CCC as stupid! > >Not quite, I think. I'm not sure the rational majority can be described as being >relentless in their pursuit of obtaining the latest commercial chess engine for >no particular reason beyond personal gratification. > >>Nice going! >> >>I'm no patzer, and many here are strong chess players, but not many would give >>Kasparov a run for his money so to speak...let us buy programmes even if it's >>for sheer amusement...rather than say this forum for the most part is stupid! > >Maybe it's an oldfashioned viewpoint, but I find any embodiment of mindless >consumerism to be an exercise in stupidity. Is it any different from all those patzer programmers trying to make a competitive engine? What a waste of time when there are already numerous very strong open source freely available (pardon my pleonasm). Rationality goes out the window sometimes, dopamin effect can be overwhelming:) -S. >Regards, >Mogens
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