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Subject: You know your a chess programmer when...

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 06:16:27 02/25/99


1.  Your hedge trimmers have a "Quiesence" attachment.
2.  Your eating Cheerio's and wonder where the "ONE BITS" went.
3.  You think about "Your evaluation function" when raking leaves.
4.  You think you can store 2 or more chess positions per atom in
     Your tablebases.
5.  Your packing the luggage in your car for your vacation and
     you suddenly realize a way to store more information in your
     hash table using fewer bits.
6.  Salt and Pepper shakers remind you of K vs K endgames.
7.  You use 0-9 and A-F and strongly suspect that there
      are letters like G,H,I etc.
8.  You_write_your_sentences_using_underscores and end
     them with ;
9.  You build totem poles in your spare time.  :-) :-( :-/ :-} [:->
10. You find there are no "12-step" programs for addiction
     to chess programming but find a buddy that helps you
     go 12-ply's deep.
11. You write a check for 200 dollars and fill in the amount as 20000E-02
12. The only movie you have seen in the last year is:
     "Searching for Bobby Fischer".
13. You have resigned from the same chess message board
     "at least" 23 times.
14. You suspect that your "Married" and that you have an
     18 month old daughter.
15. You join an art class and "Enjoy drawing trees".
16. You know all of your pc's hardware instructions and how
     many clock cycles they take to execute by heart.
17. You discover a bug in some chess code that
     you wrote 15 years ago.
18. "Your" prime numbers are 1,2,4,8,16...
19. You think "Game Over" when you see a tree stump.
20. You know what a "Permutation" is.
21. You own at least 35 C or C++ books.
22. You own at least 9 or 10 algorithm books.
23.  You are faced with the choice of buying paying the rent
     or using the money for buying new,
      faster hardware for your chess program. (No brainer)



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