Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:00:46 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 21:36:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Damn, Bob, I never before in my life read something more out of reach of my >knowledge. It is sheer technical stuff, of course, great for programmers here. >For me, I would better read from you about Crafty heuristics and ideas, even >about feelings and expectations of you about this tournament. >It is up to you, of course, but I suspect 90% of guys here feel the same as me. >fernando. here's my "personal take" on this. I've always been _highly_ competitive, whether it be fishing, hunting, football, basketball, karate, you name it, and yes, including computer chess. So rest assured I take winning very seriously. But, on the other hand, I have an office full of trophies as anyone that has been in my office can tell you. Multiple ACM tournament trophies. two old WCCC trophies. Etc. I participated in my first computer chess tournament in 1976, and did it every year thru 1994, and have been a little more sporadic since due to the extreme length of a WCCC event at present. After having done so many, I'm no longer so driven to win as I am driven to compete. I like these events as a way of seeing how recent changes perform, what needs work, what is solid, etc. I hope to attend one personally if we can get off this week+ schedule where, for example, the next three days sees exactly two chess games played. This event spans the end of summer semester and start of fall semester. Simply no way I can be gone for a week +... About all that is left to say is that this old coot still has a lot of tricks left. So long as I am on the right side of the grass, I hope to keep pulling the tricks out of my sleeve from time to time. :)
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