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Feb-04-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Dear Sirs:
I should just like to complain about the British Government's endorsement of rule changes to our Royal Game. This <Emerald Isle> still has a Monarch. Plus, I don't care much for this newfangled <Parliamentary democracy> either. Brigadier Sir Alfred Snapps, DMC, VC, (deceased) |
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Feb-04-07
 | | Domdaniel: And anyway, the medical-industrial-literary complex produces vital stuff like insulin, morphine, toothpaste, Cronenberg movies and Dvoretsky's endgame manual. |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Yes, we can't do without our <Cronenberg>. He kind of makes the global warming thing seem like a good trade-off to enjoy civlization. His last film's a corker eh? I think it's his best since <Body Double> (that's the right title? Jeremy Irons...) |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: BTW, still awaiting a response to my 1. ...a7!
I'll whup ya, I tells ya... |
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| Feb-04-07 | | Eyal: <Looks like the smart thing to do is turn centaur> I suppose that's especially true for amateurs like us, for whom centaur game (particularly in a consultation format) is the only way to reach a REALLY high level of play. I mean, when we go over the Nickel game we know very well there's no way we could produce such play just by our own (individual) power; while a strong GM may be impressed, but he can still feel that on a good day he'll be able to produce something on a similar (or even higher?) level . |
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| Feb-04-07 | | Eyal: But the very fact that a group of amateurs working efficiently together in a centaur game CAN reach a strong GM level may be of historical significance in itself – is that the idea? |
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Feb-04-07
| | Domdaniel: Dear Brig Snapps (decd)
The Bureaucracy on the Other Side is responsible for all complaints from the differently mortalled, and also stiffs. Please be so good as to take it up with them.Winifred St Ng
Asst Under Secretary (Smaragdine Dept)
PS. Did we know one another in a pervious (or even impervious) existence? When you were a carny act under the name Alf Man, Alf Bird, Alf Wit? And I was your shapely assistant, Tit Willow? Since you ask, yes, I always get reincarnated as somebody's assistant. My shrink says if I gave it more juice it might qualify as an Electra complex. |
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Feb-04-07
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> I'm not really concerned about the quality per se of the Nickel game anymore - it's a good game, but we were also a little lucky. My point is about the psychological impact on master-strength OTB players - first they're tactically thrashed by engines, now something - human, silicon or combo thereof - proves strategically capable of beating them. CC/centaur players like Arno are familiar with this factor from freestyle events, but some OTB GMs appear to be sulking. RDK comes close to spoiling the Petrosian book with swipes at computers. Plus some errors that an engine would have found. I'm not sure whether I should tell him about them. Or it may simply be that many players have master-level strategic ideas, but spoil them with blunders in OTB play. Add an engine, and the master's edge vanishes. And the centaur phenom is an interesting case of human/machine intelligence, cyber-hybridization, etc. Now that machines do our thinking we can put our brains to a better use? |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Machines do our thinking? I direct your attention to the fine documentary film <Starship Trooper> in which malevolent insect machines threaten humanity.... |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Dear Mrs. Ng:
We're English here. We do't lorn Dutch in the UK. In answer to your queery, all of the Snappseses have attended <Eaten> and had our bums soundly paddled. We don't associate with carnies. However, I believe that Ms. Tit Willow works at the offy down the lane, no? Sincerely,
Etc. etc. (still deceased) |
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Feb-04-07
| | Domdaniel: Dear Kernel Snip
Still deceased, eh? That's the trouble with you English folk. Oh, it's all very pretty in your little thatched palaces with old maids cycling through swarms of vespers and what-have-you, and warm beer baths, and such, but you lack initiative. Get up and go.That's a metaphor, not an invitation.
Win.
That's a name, not an instruction. |
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Feb-04-07
| | Domdaniel: 1...a7!!
Gott in Himmel, mein Zug ist Zwangt.
The rook is Verloren
The Laufer is snorin'
The Lady is takin' her ease
The pawns all sniffed chlorine
The knight is out whorin'
And his majesty's grabbin' some Zees. |
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Feb-04-07
| | Domdaniel: Poluphloisboiotatotic. |
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Feb-04-07
| | Domdaniel: The preceding sure looks like a one-word kibitz to me... |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: yesitdoes |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: oh it's only 4 character words they won't allow!! |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: splunge |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: splung |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: splun |
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Feb-04-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hah! I knew it!! They won't let me post "splu" by itself. Now that's science in action there folks. |
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| Feb-04-07 | | Eyal: No F*** letter words, now I get it. |
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Feb-04-07
 | | WannaBe: So, t*** g*** for any f*** lettered w***? Or is o*** the bad o***?? |
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Feb-04-07
| | WannaBe: Ummm... that 'is' should have been omitted.
or, U***... t*** 'is' should h*** b*** omitted. |
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| Feb-04-07 | | Eyal: While we're on the subject, let me quote the following passage from <Tristram Shandy>: _**************
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(That's how Book IX, chapter 20 opens, in case anyone thinks I'm making this up). |
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| Feb-05-07 | | Eyal: <Plus some errors that an engine would have found.> Btw, I haven't done a thorough check of the MGP series by any means, but from the little I happened to check (in Tal vs Smyslov, 1959) it seems that even "Kasparov and his computers" can be rather sloppy. |
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