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Subject: Re: Please stop the bickering

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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