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

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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