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Subject: Re: A nice win against Hiarcs 7.32! A fairy tale in the making

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:14:41 12/16/99

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On December 15, 1999 at 21:55:54, robert michelena wrote:

>If the shoe fits, wear it.
>
>I stand by my comment, and by now, my well known view.  To suggest that anybody
>who is not a grandmaster can beat a commercial program is to insult our common
>sense.  These programs can search faster and deeper then any human.  They can
>and often do defeat top grandmasters.
>
>Under the circumstances, to claim that you can defeat (unless 'you' happened to
>be a grandmaster)a commercial program at its strongest setting now only insults
>our intelligence and common sense, but, more importantly, reflects on 'you'.


Sorry, but your comment is far more insulting than his statement.  Commercial
programs lose _all the time_ to players that are not even USCF masters.  Log on
to ICC or FICS and look at the commercial program's histories.  It is not an
exceptional happening at all..



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