Author: Will Singleton
Date: 18:34:35 10/31/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 05:49:51, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >So directly or indirectly the level of achievement of >today's commercial chess programs would not have been possible without this body >of knowledge provided by "amateurs", which by the way is the wrong word that has >been used in this discussion to refer to non-commercial chess programmers. >Programmers, freaks like me and end-users should be grateful to them. > "Amateur" is the appropriate term. I believe it means "lover of the game." The more usual meaning isn't exactly perjorative, though perhaps it has come to be accepted as such. Will
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