Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 15:15:49 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 17:47:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On October 12, 1999 at 14:58:21, odell hall wrote: > >>I don't think Ed Was making any "Macho" statements at all, He was simply >>reporting the excellent results against what he Perceived to be Deepblue jr. I >>think anyone would have done the same thing, It was not his fault that deepblue >>Team misrepresnts a "fake" as the Real thing. Ed doesn't have EsP or Psychic >>abilities, he can only go by what he sees presented. Had ferret beat what you >>thought was deepblue, would you not comment about it??? I see nothing wrong >>personally in a person who is in "business" To use positive publicity, as long >>as this publicity is based on Fact. Ed Reported the Facts Accurately as far as >>he knew them. > >I haven't followed the thing with Ed, so I wasn't referring to Ed specifically, >I was referring to the general attitude of the whole microcomputer crowd, >including people in here who don't program but have their favorites, etc. > >Regarding DB Jr in Paderborn, the thing was running over the net on a machine >out in the lobby, and I believe that what happened is that a few people were >taking laptops out there. > >I was invited to do this by one of the other programmers, which was a very nice >offer, and I declined. > >The idea didn't appeal to me at the time, and I wasn't able to express at the >time why I didn't want to mess with the thing. It is still difficult for me to >say. > >I think that I would rather play their best version, or at least a version that >I can describe accurately after the game, rather than play some computer museum >dinky-ass lobby version. > >It would have been fun to play against it, but I don't think it would have >proven or disproven anything if my program had beaten it. I'm sure it could >have. If I could play it from here I would. But at the time I was having >mental health problems due to playing in a big tournament, and I just wanted to >email my family then leave to go get food and beer. > >bruce Your last paragraph makes me wonder if there is any sort of disciplinary action for a computer entrant if its operator is taking performance-enhancing drugs (e.g. aspirin or valium or something :-). Dave
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