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Subject: Re: Whenever I download a chess program, all I get is script.

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 04:22:34 10/29/03

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Hello Mr. Taylor,

I find it very hard to reply to your message in a friendly and hopefully not
unhelpfull way, but I will try.

Genesis 2 is cetainly not rubbish, but a very fine chess program!

In fact, the usage and installation of so called "amateur" programs has due to
the effort of many people become much easier.

So easy in fact, that you just need to sit down a couple of hours to study the
general workings of microsoft windows (learn for example how to delete
downloaded files), and a whole new world of computerchess is open to you.

This should be especially easy to you, because as a young person to grasp how
computers work does not take long.

When I first got into contact with computers, all I had was a C64 with an
English manual. A couple of days later I was writing simple (and silly) programs
...
and I am certainly no genius by any means.

Georg

On October 29, 2003 at 06:35:22, stuart taylor wrote:

>Therefore I gave it up long ago, since all I achieve is to burden my fathers
>computer with some useless mysterious files of some kind.
>But I just now got temted by what looked like the ease of downloading another
>one, looking like nothing in the world can go wrong, and there again, a load of
>rubbish gets downloaded and can't be deleted either! This was what I thought was
>to be Genesis 2, and trhat it was a chess playing program.
> For that reason, I have hardly any interest in all these amatuer programs
>because all it does is installs alot of dirt onto my computer, and that doesn't
>seem very attractive to me.
>
>Anyway,
>
>Perhaps I can do with some expert guidance as to how to convert it into a
>chessplaying thing.
>
>S.Taylor



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