Author: Arturo Ochoa
Date: 07:38:26 07/08/04
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On July 08, 2004 at 08:10:48, Albert Silver wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 15:47:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>It has ben unfortunate that my post about Diep maddly chasing pawns as Junior >>prepared the killing has produced some degree of attack or flaming over >>Diepeveen, the author. I have nothing againts him and so please do not include >>me in the middle of that noisy battle. I have only expressed a relatively soft, >>mild, perhaps even humorous criticism of one notorious peculiarity of Mr >>Diepeveen I mentioned there, his reglar bombasts about Diep knowledge. Besides, >>Diepeveen has sinned when critizising other programs and now Hubrys, the greek >>god or goddess of vengeance, has mauled him hard. That's all. He has sinned as >>anybody can about the most usual, common, vulgar sin: vanity and arrogance. >>Beyond that I am sure Diepeveen is a highly intelligent and nice guy, a capable >>programmer simpy caught, this time, for his own words uttered in a recent and >>distant past. >>Who can throw the first stone? Not me in my own field, for sure. >>But also and for the same eson it is always good to be remembered of these sins >>not to commit them again in the future. As the guy at his side was ordered to >>say to the Caesars when in triumph, "remember you are mortal". >>That I did. Not less, NOT more. >>I really feel myself as a grandfaher today... >>fernando > >I'm the one getting stoned mind you (chuckle). The funny thing is that I >genuinely like Vincent and have had some fine discussions on ICC with him. He >was also kind enough to send me a copy of an article regarding Deep Blue, which >I have in turn shared with others. I always poke fun at my friends' foibles, and >Vincent's are a little (cough!) more outstanding than others. Personally, I'd be >truly shocked if he were to take any of the comparisons with Chess Challenger >seriously, and actually be offended. Considering his resistence to the real >flames he gets from colleagues here for some of his posts, I am sure he is far >above getting upset over such a silly thing. > > Albert You are really stoned, sir, pretty stoned. There is nothing funny in your attitude. I have verified that you have not discussed anything with Vincent. What is more, he has another appreciation about you. He is not upset. He is clear about you.
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