Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 06:16:05 01/15/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 06:11:48, Tina Long wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 21:13:11, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>On January 14, 2000 at 20:08:49, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi peter: >>>Yes, it would be great if Mr Hsu posted here, but respect to this issue is >>>difficult what else he can add to the many thigs he already said in his open >>>letter. His explanation was long, detailed, almost a a Lukas saga. >>>fernando >> >>Hello Fernando: >>True, his letters have been quite detailed and to the point. However, they seem >>to have raised just as many questions as they have answered. Witness the number >>of DB-GK threads that have appeared here in the last few days. Many people here >>have expanded the debate with questions like "I wonder what Hsu would think of >>this proposal"? or "what would Hsu think of playing Khalifman instead"? etc... >>In fact you may have noticed that there has even been new poll questions >>suggested. But why have a poll about what DB's successor should or shouldn't do >>when the only person that could answer these questions is Hsu himself? >>Best regards, >>Peter >Dr. Hsu should not post here: > >I think we should consider ourselves very lucky to have seen the correspondance >to the extent we have. People are already taking this sort of open information >for granted. Before the Internet none of us would have known about any of this >Hsu - Kasparov. And today the young cyber-users are saying "I should be able to >discuss this issue directly with Dr Hsu." > >I think we should be happy with what we've got. We received information from a >couple of sources direct from the "Horses mouths". We are in a cyber-commumity >of people who are variously qualified to discuss the (non) developements, and we >get many viewpoints. If any more "official" information is released we will >very quickly hear about it. > >How lucky are we. Take this discussion to your mates or to the playground or >workplace and no-one gives a damn. We are able to discuss & conjecture these >things here, and even get feedback from people who really know about the subject >and actually know the major characters. > >I wouldn't expect Dr Hsu to expose himself to this place. "Why did you do this, >why don't you do that" "I reckon you should...". Anything he says he's stuck >with for the rest of his life. Any language difficulties (Hsu is American, half >of us here arn't) could cause difficulties (Look at the confusion of Anand's >comment about 10 times faster). This is a very very big-money project we're >discussing, Hsu could become even more famous & possibly disgustingly rich. >Why would he come here & risk it all. > >And of course, someone would surely embariss us all in some juvenile way. "Isn't >it true you cheated Kasparov..." "Definitely not...." "You dum@#$% @#$%^ *&^%* >idiot...." > >The interested parties are probably getting some feedback on what's being said & >suggested here & at RGCC, and we'll certainly hear the next episode of what goes >on. That's plenty for me, just another of the many wonderous soap-operas going >on in chess & computer chess. I personally hang on every episode. > >Hi guys >Tina Long Words of Wisdom... "I think we should be happy with what we got". Born emptyhanded - dying emptyhanded - the way of the white cloud... This Long fellow must be a philosopher of some kind!? And maybe we need more of intuition, philosophy, eyes to see the wider connections of life, compassion. Op, must go visit the Dr:s page to see if new Tiger-match has been played. Just for statistics, of course...
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