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Subject: Re: Nimzo99 - MChess 8 SSDF game 39+40/40 TOTAL: 19,5 - 20,5

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 03:23:35 05/08/99

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On May 07, 1999 at 08:45:48, Harald Faber wrote:

>On May 06, 1999 at 12:48:12, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>>>>Fine, this will bring back some points to MCP. He deserves them.
>>>>
>>>>He?
>>>>Tony
>>>
>>>MChess8: 2481
>>>Nimzo99: 2565
>>>
>>>So this 20.5-19.5 will give MCP8 some points, right?
>>
>>Yes, of course. I just wondered why you call MCP8 for he? A program has no
>>gender has it? I just tried to be funny, sorry.
>>Tony
>
>Argh! My fault, I read it as a 'hä?' which is spoken like He? in German, in the
>sense of 'what?'
>
>And besides it also sounds funny to speak of programs and IT. Given names they
>get some kind of personality thus humans tend to call them HE or so...
>However this is funny in either case. :-)

I see. In fact we have the spoken 'hä?' as 'what?' in swedish too.

Tony



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