Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:29:46 12/22/98
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Hi KK: I have followed with some amusement this long dispute about CM6000. Funny to see grown-up people debating if this or that program is or not a toy, getting angry about it, insulting each other, etc, and all this just for a chess program! Shame... Nevertheless, let me add one aditional point to consider: except for definite and obvious toys made out for children, like puppets, plastic trucks, etc, for a side, and definitevely non toys objects as atomic bombs or the theroy of relativity for another side, the middle range of objetc is full of things that can be considered in any way because it is the use what matters, not it's intrinsic quality. If you are a collector of guns, I am sure yours pistols can be considered as something akin with toys, but surely nobody will consider a toy the italian rifle with which suposedly Oswald shot Kennedy. Probably the question is the degree of seriousness you put in the use of a thing. For Kasparov even Battle Chess is not a toy as much if he ever use it, surely he will try to give it some utility to improve his play. Maybe he will consider it, later, as an useful tool, but not as a toy. And me, to go to the contrary extreme, you can bet I use the most "professional" as a toy because I am not interested in getting serious with chess. For me is just fun and so every thing I use to play chess is a toy. fernando
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