Author: Tony Werten
Date: 02:24:04 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 02:38:20, Ed Schröder wrote: >On February 11, 2003 at 21:50:00, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On February 11, 2003 at 17:45:52, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>On February 11, 2003 at 17:10:44, Yen Art Tham wrote: >>> >>>>Ed, are you going to be entering Rebel in future tournaments? >>>>I (and most Rebel fans) hope you will, if you have the time. >>> >>>I have retired, so sorry. I still like to fiddle with the engine so now and then >>>for time passing. When it is better I will put it on the net. >>> >>>My best, >>> >>>Ed > >>What's the difference between doing that and what yu did before? that now it >>will be free and before it wasn't? >>S.Taylor > >Stu, there is a world of difference. I am back to my roots, that is the amateur >status making a chess program that plays stronger and stronger this without any >commercial obligations, no more pressure to perform, no more commercial >activities, no more user email, no more web-page updates and and and.....just do >it out of pleasure again. > >The internet is a great thing, it also has a dark side. I started with the Rebel >Home Page back in 1995, while the years passed the internet became more >important each year commercially speaking. People started to order directly from >Rebel Company instead of from their local dealer. > >The work involved increased and increased and raised to an unacceptable high >level in the sense there hardly was any time left for chess programming. >Especially the last 3-4 years I felt more like a full-time manager than a chess >programmer, things had become out of balance. > >Last year I realized I couldn't continue this way, that my health is more >important than working 12-14 hours a day. A certain tragic in the family made me >decide once and for all as my family needed much of my time suddenly. > >So when you ask me "what is the difference" then I answer, I have my life and >hobby back. A lot of people dream of making a living from their hobby. Unfortunately there are 2 nasty sideeffects. First, you don't have a hobby anymore. Second, you're still busy with your work in your free time. Tony > >My best, > >Ed
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