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Subject: Re: Moderation: What Did He Say?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 21:29:21 09/16/99

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On September 16, 1999 at 21:06:24, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On September 16, 1999 at 19:29:53, Thom Perry wrote:
>
>>On September 16, 1999 at 18:55:01, Bradley S., Short wrote:
>>
>>>On September 16, 1999 at 17:53:52, odell hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 16, 1999 at 13:16:08, Bradley S., Short wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The last time I even used Chessmaster 3000 was on a 486/50. Lately
>>>>>I have been playing around with it on a Celeron 366 and it is much
>>>>>improved.
>>>>>Beat Novag Sapphire 5 to 0 at game in 60 minutes.
>>>>>Draw against CM5500 at 3 min per move.
>>>>>Draw against CM6000 at 3 min per move.
>>>>>
>>>>>It takes time to play these 3 min per move games but so far CM3000 hasnt
>>>>>been beaten. It can see over 200,000 postitions per second. more
>>>>>four times 5500 or 6000.
>>>>>Both 5500 and 6000 are much more sophisticated programs with better
>>>>>algorithms so they would no doubt defeat 3000 in serious matches but
>>>>>still I am quite pleased with the old boy.
>>>>>I used 3000 to learn to play the game and back then it really used to
>>>>>make short work of me. As I got stronger I began to see its weaknesses..
>>>>>Later I got 4000 and went back to getting spanked.
>>>>>But now that the hardware is 10 times faster 3000 made a significant leap
>>>>>in strength. Enough to interest me again.
>>>>>
>>>>>Brad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you ask me Chessmaster 3000 is rather weak, I beat it like a step-child
>>>>when I had my cyrix 233
>
>Stop and think for a moment and perhaps you can come up with a very nice analogy
>or metaphor involving someone of a different race.  Imagine for a moment how mad
>a whole bunch of people would get if you used this analogy in this group, and
>your best response to this would perhaps be to go hide under a rock.
>
>Now imagine an analogy involving some light belligerent intent, or reference to
>a meat product, or something like that.  If you use this analogy, perhaps it
>offends someone, and your response would be something like, "excuse me for
>living, buster".
>
>There has been a complaint about the analogy at the end of the quoted post.  I
>think the analogy is somewhere between the two situations described in my
>previous two paragraphs.  I can see the point of the complaint, but I don't want
>to delete the post.  I would ask that people consider carefully the effect their
>words will have on the large and diverse population of people who read CCC, and
>please try to use images that won't result in complaints to the CCC moderator
>alias.
>
>Thanks,
>
>bruce
>
>PS.  It is possible that another moderator may feel differently and delete the
>thread.  If so, nevermind.

You three have been doing a great job.  I would have zapped it immediately, but
that's me.  Your approach probably will work, and people respond better to that
style, I guess.

Will




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