Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:28:20 02/25/99
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On February 25, 1999 at 09:16:27, Larry Griffiths wrote: when, after 30 years, your wife still comes home and asks: "are you checking your email or are you still working on that chess shit?" :) >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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