Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 14:23:45 06/28/99
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On June 28, 1999 at 16:54:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >But where is the content? Even if the charges were fully true, where is the >benefit for the readers of the message? There was a championship and the organisers (i do not include Ulf or Rainer here! They were there) were not much interested in the outcome of the tournament, it was just not that much important like the banquet. Thats the information vincent presents and vincent is upset about. This should be a legal contribution in a computerchess-club because it is about the computer-chess-championships. And it is NOT against a person. it is against organisation. I don't know what YOUR BENEFIT is. information does not need to benefit you. it is written to inform and to fullfill social parts of the thing. Perhaps I say this because there is no >benefit for *me* personally to hear bad reports about other people. I just want >to learn what they can teach me. If someone got angry and said silly things, I >reall don't care about it. Now I admit that others might. In fact I am curious >about others viewpoint on this very matter [Do they want to hear it or not?]. It is a question of beeing social or not. If - for you - a person is participant in a tournament, without having anything else than his function to operate the machine, you could replace the guys with an autoplayer-cable or even play on a network. i am sure this will completely destroy computerchess. because it would not be anymore about people. it is the social group effects that is important. If you take away the meetings, the event, the possibility to be together, computerchess would lose the main-advantages. A sports event is about fairness. the loser has to learn to stand it fair. this is about social-interactions. if someone is unable to stand to lose, he is a problem in the group. Or if other interests influence the sport-character. >To each his tastes? aha. so if somebody wants to eat he shall do so. and why not meet in the name of the ICCA and only eat and drink ? No competition needed. only the money of the participants.
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