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Tim,

I try to follow the general of always ignoring WebTV users unless they
display some sort of recognizable intelligence, and that's very rare. The
other day I responded to one of them in rec.games.chess.misc but that was
only because he didn't appear to be insane.

Pete

Tim Mann wrote:

> I'm curious.  Does anyone know what chess game is most easily
> accessible to WebTV users, and why they think that posting to the
> Usenet group gnu.chess will be helpful when they have problems with
> it?  This is the third message of this kind I've seen.  I tried
> replying to the first one, but that person was so clueless that he
> still didn't understand he had posted to the wrong place.  Whatever
> game it is, the symptom of the computer changing the position out from
> under the player (or at least the player thinking it did so) seems to
> be common, which is pretty weird.
>
>        --Tim
>
> In article <12186-37688A54-115@newsd-273.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
> Jonathan Schaefer <JonathanInTulsa@webtv.net> wrote:
> >IWAS PLAYING ALONG WHOOPIN THE COMP AND THEN I MAKE A REALLY GOOD MOVE
> >THEN THE THING TAKES ME BACK WELL OVER FOUR MOVES AND MOVED HHIS PIECES
> >IN A BETTER POSITION PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I WOULD PROBABLY BE
> >WILING TO PAY FOR SOME GAMES IF I DIDNT HAVE THIS TROUBLE
> --
> Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>, Compaq Systems Research Center
> http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/