Author: A. Cozzie
Date: 15:23:13 09/02/05
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On September 02, 2005 at 17:35:41, Ryan B. wrote: >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. But that is the weird thing. If you search the archives, you can see that I very rarely talk about how Zappa plays. anthony
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