Author: Ryan B.
Date: 14:35:41 09/02/05
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On September 02, 2005 at 10:06:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 02, 2005 at 09:03:14, A. Cozzie wrote: > >>That there is just going to be a lot of shit (good & bad) posted around here >>about Zappa from now on. I think I will just not read anything with Zappa in >>the headline :) > >There are always going to be haters for the one who is standing on top. Since >you just won a world championship, you have earned a crowd of haters. You do >come across a bit brash at times (as do Hyatt, Vincent, and many other good >chess programmers), and the impersonal nature of the internet will multiply that >effect a thousand times. > >So I would not worry about it. You are not going to please everyone. > >I would look at it this way: >There are 6 billion people in the world. One of them (you) happened to win a >world championship this year for computer chess and the rest of them did not win >it. So if some of the 6 billion less one want to throw tomato and potato just >figure that it is jealousy for the most part. As is usual, the majority are >silent and a few sqeaky gears are the ones that get noticed. > >IMO-YMMV. I think that brash attitude is what brings the hate. Fabian is great programmer with very quick success and has no haters that I know of. The programmers of Spike seem to have no haters here. Amir Ban, and SMK get no hate. All the people I listed that do not get hate here have been nice and humble about their successes in computer chess.
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