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Article #1368Re: changing difficulty
From: Simon Waters
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:28
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:28
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,81169d3c0ebf0603 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-11 10:28:42 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: changing difficulty Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:28:03 +0000 Organization: Eighth Layer Limited Lines: 39 Message-ID: <c0ds8o$scn$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> References: <17d6a0cb.0402110232.37e18fa0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wretched.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig61B4021CBDF8684E1C5A994F" X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1076524121 29079 193.237.109.203 (11 Feb 2004 18:28:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:28:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <17d6a0cb.0402110232.37e18fa0@posting.google.com> X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113