Author: Reynolds Takata
Date: 01:15:49 01/16/99
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On January 15, 1999 at 19:18:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 15, 1999 at 18:53:26, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >>On January 15, 1999 at 17:50:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>>Hi, Dann! GNU ain't no pansy. You are wrong. Try to beat GNU under any serious >>>>playing conditions and publish the games of the match, I challenge you. >>>I accept. It will probably take me a few tries to win, but once I do, I will >>>send you the PGN to *prove* once and for all before all onlookers, that GNU >>>chess is a pansy. >>> >>>I will also provide a list of every operational chess program at my disposal (of >>>which I will use none -- but just so you can check up on me if you like). >>>[snip] >> >>Gee whiz, Dann! I am impressed -- it will take you a few tries to win against a >>pansy. Wow. I concede that you have the spirit. >That's because *I'm* a pansy when it comes to chess. I have no interest in ever >entering a tournament because I know that there are people who are better than >me and always will be better than me. I was the same way about road racing. I >used to participate when I thought I might win, but I would never enter one now. > If I enter a contest, it will be because (1) it's convenient and (2) I think I >have a real shot at winning and (3) it does not interfere with anything >important. > Dan you are cracking me up lately :)m what's wrong with you hahaha. Surely you can't suck too bad at chess if you really thought you could beat gnu chess. Further if you think you can really judge that a programs play is good or not. So you might as well start playing. Heck about 10-15% of the tournament is luck anyway(the pairings). >>I also wanna find out which >>machine GNU (which version, too) will run on. Hope you don't mind my finding out >>about the pansy which I deem about 2350 blitz on a PII-300. >I never play blitz. I don't even like blitz. I add blitz games to my database >because good moves might be stumbled upon, but in general, I think blitz, >lightning and the rest of the super short time controls are lousy chess. >The version of GNU will be the one that ships with Winboard 4.0 (I can do some >version checking if needed, but it will be the "stock" version from Tim Mann's >ftp site. I'll try my hand at it this evening. I will run on a PII 300 Mhz. >The memory settings will be GNU defaults, whatever those are.
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