Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:06:17 02/20/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 00:14:35, Albert Silver wrote:
>On February 18, 2000 at 23:01:40, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On February 17, 2000 at 19:15:23, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On February 17, 2000 at 18:33:20, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>The morbid fear of playing on against Deep Junior and the "true" result against
>>>>super GM players shows that (I think) at G/60, a computer does play like a GM.
>>>>Maybe even a super GM.
>>>
>>>On a quad Xeon 500 and at g/60, I have no doubt that it plays like a GM, so you
>>>won't see me disagreeing with you there.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I think that Amir and Shay should be justifiably proud of their effort. Any
>>>>machine+program that can strike fear into the heart of a super-GM is an
>>>>astonishing thing.
>>>>
>>>>I think that Adams is not to blame for any controversy. If I were a player, I
>>>>would always push for any edge I could get, even with the arbitration committee.
>>>>
>>>
>>>There I can't agree with you. I think you have to remember what it is all about:
>>>playing chess. If there were a loophole in the organizational rules, I don't
>>>think that that means one should strive to exploit it to the utmost. Could a
>>>point scored under such circumstances ever be displayed without shame?
>>>
>>>Friend: "So, how did your game go against GM whatshisname?"
>>>Me: "I won."
>>>Friend: "Really? That's fantastic! What opening did you play?"
>>>Me: "Opening? We never got that far. My opponent had come back from outside
>>>after smoking a cigarette, and I could still smell it, so I protested that
>>>smoking wasn't allowed and that there were still traces of it from his breath
>>>poisoning the air around me. He was disqualified."
>>>Friend: "Beautiful. Must have been very exciting."
>>>
>>>This actually reminds me of a hilarious strategy described by the great Goscinny
>>>and Uderzo in "Asterix and the Britons" in which Caesar after having a hard time
>>>invading the British Isles, discovers that the Brits won't fight during teatime
>>>and weekends, so he victoriously schedules all of his invasions exclusively
>>>during teatime and weekends.
>>
>>
>>Wow! You've been in France for too long, Albert! You've been deeply intoxicated
>>by our culture! ;)
>>
>>And if you know who Gaston Lagaffe is, I believe your case is hopeless.
>
>And Spirou and Fantasio, and I wouldn't dream of being separated from my
>collection of Madame LaCrue! :-)
>
> L'Amerloque
Well, I see it's too late for you. RIP. :)
Christophe
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