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Subject: Re: Moderation: FIDE chihuahuas

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 14:29:07 08/20/99

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On August 20, 1999 at 13:06:12, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On August 20, 1999 at 07:30:57, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On August 20, 1999 at 06:06:35, Ron Norris wrote:
>>
>>>If the governing body(FIDO) of all animals of the world wished to establish
>>>which animal was the fiercest fighter, then invited all animals to compete,
>>>hoping to prove to the world that only their organisation could produce such
>>>a great and majestic display of competition and bravery.  But what if the
>>>lion declined, and the tiger declined, and the bear declined, and the rhino
>>>declined, but only the chihuahuas showed up.  Naturally, a chihuahua won.
>>>
>>>The very proud organisation of FIDO would proclaim their champion chihuahua
>>>as the only true champion.  Of course, it was assumed that the tiger, the
>>>lion, the bear and the rhino must have been afraid of competition from the
>>>fierce chihuahuas. So, as FIDO struts their newly crowned chihuahua around
>>>the globe, exalting his accomplishments, praising his bravery, and wanting
>>>all the world to acknowledge the champions skills, the world is split over
>>>the acceptance or denial of the newly crowned monarch of FIDO.
>>
>>I wonder what this has to do with computer chess?
>>
>>Andrew
>
>Nothing, but hopefully it will go away of its own accord.
>
>Is this getting out of control or is there little enough of this that it's not a
>big deal?
>
>bruce

There was another long thread involving a moderator :) that I was about to fire
off a complaint about.  Instead I decided to ask them to "let it lie" and they
seem to be taking the hint.

Dave



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