I don't remember the details, but it had to do with openings/variations' winning/drawing percentages. I think it was based on the data from CG.com's games database.

At the time, while the project was still in progress, there was a number of questions/issues I was interested in, but waited for You to complete the work.

I can't really remember it now without seeing the papers, but mostly, I think I was intrigued with a practical purpose of the results, really their potential application.

So, what happened with the project? Done? Do You still have it somewhere? If so, would it be possible to have a peek at it?

I'm <Jess>, pleased to meet you.

I just wanted to give you a quick "well-quothed" on the <Frost poem>.

I remember studying that poem at school, and thinking....

Hmmm... the "late entry of the <Woodchuck> is a bit forced.. What is his motivation? What would Stanislavsky say?"

Anyways thanks. It's a beautiful poem, and I hope the <CLICHES> now "fall like ripe apples."

Frost repeatedly resorts to animal apparitions and in some cases the adequacy of this response to the human wish for meaning or sign is itself the ostensible subject of the poem -'The most of it', 'Two look at two'. Elsewehere, as in 'The oven bird', 'The need of being versed in country things' or 'Design' the creatures embody not so much a response to this wish as its disappointment or irrelevance.

"Chess game erupts in gunfire in Greensburg"

By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, January 25, 2008

"A drunken chess game turned dangerous Wednesday night when one of the participants threatened to kill himself, grabbed a handgun and fired it, authorities said.

Greensburg police said Zachary J. Lucov and Dennis Kleyn were playing chess about 11:40 p.m. when Lucov raised a .40-caliber Glock handgun toward his head in Kleyn's apartment at 504 W. Otterman St. The two struggled, the weapon discharged and Kleyn was struck near his left elbow, police said.

The blast passed through Kleyn's arm and just missed Lucov's 9-month-old son, who was playing on the kitchen floor, authorities said.

What Paul Craig Roberts is afraid of is that the commission will go after far-right groups, not because they are terrorists, but because they are far-right. There is already a tendency, exploited to the full by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, to characterize any right-wing group that takes a dim view of immigration or affirmative action as a hate group.

I am a little worried about that myself, but the fact that the commission will be half-Republican or close to it at all times diminishes my concern.

The thread actually started some 3 days ago in <JoeWms> forum (pages 82-83). Some interesting thoughts there.

Also, <RonB52734>'s comments, page 57, his forum.

I don't know whether You have "met" Your colleague Ron Barber.

This is what I think:

At some point in time people lived at subsistence level, so it was impossible to exploit, but there was a point in time when people started to produces more than they need to survive, this made exploitation possible. How do you take that extra from a man? My answer is religion. Scare the man into believing that if he doesn't do as he told, than something terrible will happen, like claim that eclipse is a warning from the gods, but the next time the sun will go out! Powerful stuff, especially if you predict the eclipse correctly. And once the working men allowed themselves to be exploited, it was very hard to get the rights back. The state grew stronger, meaning that you would have to face an army if you rebel. Of course religions changed over time, but they served the same purpose, to keep the working men working for pennies. The working man was pretty much helpless, it even got to the point of surfs, where they also lost their freedom. Of course, eventually workers took their rights back, but not yet in 1800s.

Btw, I think exploitation still takes place in the world today, but it is, of course, to a lesser degree.