On Jan 5, 1:19*am, help bot wrote:
On Jan 3, 11:34 am, Sanny wrote:

Dec 23 2007 was the last day I saw post of Help Bot here. After that
today 10 Days have passed and not a single post by Help Bot. He used
to post 4-5 Messages daily Now what happened to him?

Has he gone out in the Winter?

Has he gone some where where there is no Internet Access???

* Every year around this time, I have to travel up North
on business. *I am very, VERY busy during the Xmas
season, let's just say in the distribution of goods
racket.

* Now this year, while doing some extensive traveling
from my home base in the North, I caught a nasty
cold... more than a cold, actually. *An infection, which
knocked me cold, and messed up one of my two visual
sensors. *I could not read; I could not write; in fact, I
went a week without even logging onto the internet!

* Back now (I ho, ho, hope), I have been catching up on
my emails, using some powerful lenses to compensate
for my visual sensor problem. *The chess newsgroup,
sad to say, is not priority number one. *But I have not
"forgotten" chess. *In fact, my next tournament will
likely be the single best opportunity for opponents to
snatch some easy rating points from me, owing to my
impaired condition. *(Not that anyone was having any
difficulties in that regard before.)

* Now, as for GetClub: my latest impression is that
it is getting tougher and tougher to win, yet at some
point (if I can hang tough) the program will still self-
destruct, often as not by a trade of a piece for two
pawns and a couple of spite-checks.

* I still stand by my original advice: if you can make
the program "see" tactics with check-and-capture
extensions, and if you program it to be purely
materialistic, most humans will bite the dust on
account of the computer's far superior speed and
accuracy. *It is the attempt to inject a value on
what I see as spite-checks, which is throwing off
the eval. function. *No crude program can assess
the true value of spite-checks, so they ought to be
ignored; if there is a mating attack, *calculate it*,
don't guess percentages. *Don't settle for less
than three pawns in exchange for a piece.

* -- help bot

Help Bot,

The **** vat has messed up your primary processor (BRAIN). Perhaps a
bath, a cleaning, and a fresh
meal will help that Visual Sensor. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says HI to you
personally. I heard there were vats
of **** in Chess City, Russia, and he told me to tell you there is a
job hearding Sheep and working
with the FIDE spam team in Chess City, if you one day want it.

FIDE has two kinds of **** in Chess City: SHEEP and SPAM. Your resmue
has made it to RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marcus Roberts