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Subject: Re: More about the Gothic Vortex Program, $10,000 challenge

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:55:13 01/06/04

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On January 05, 2004 at 18:18:57, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On January 05, 2004 at 13:52:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2004 at 11:07:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On January 04, 2004 at 00:43:30, Ed Trice wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi Ed,
>>>
>>>It was my intention to stop posting in the amateur forum,
>>
>>
>>Why don't you take your "non-amateur" stuff back to the forum for
>>the "world's foremost authority on everything" (which has only one
>>member of course, so you _never_ have to defend anything you post
>>there) and leave the rest of us alone?
>>
>>your "air of superiority" is sickening, IMHO.
>>
>>BTW, exactly how many copies of your program have you sold, to qualify you
>>to be "non-amateur"???
>
>This is quite clearly an amateur forum.  The vast majority of the members here,
>including you and me, are not paid to write chess programs.
>
>I know you and Vincent don't get along, but you seem to be able to take offense
>at the mildest things when he writes them . . .

Do you not see his implied insult?

There is "amateur forum" which is simply a place where "amateurs" gather.  But
what about Ed, Christophe, and the rest of the commercial guys?  So that doesn't
fit here.

There is "amateur forum" where is a place where ideas are worthless, and that
is what Vincent was suggesting, since the normal definition of "amateur forum"
can't apply where commercial programmers participate.

>
>anthony



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