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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