How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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Fguy64
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How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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You find yourself staring at a fen string looking for a checkmate.

let's hear em!
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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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Fguy64 wrote:You find yourself staring at a fen string looking for a checkmate.

let's hear em!
Your definition of nerd is someone that uses assembler popcnt. What? you do not use bitboards??? That is soooo uncool.

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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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You're upset because the local computer guy can't fix UCI handling issues.

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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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You start talking about your engine as though she is a woman.
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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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Michael Sherwin wrote:You start talking about your engine as though she is a woman.
Haha Thankfully I'm not that far gone.
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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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You're cursing your engine when it's losing ...

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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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All improvements make the engine weaker.
My engine was quite strong till I added knowledge to it.
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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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You spend endless hours posting about how mad you are that you never got your promised engine update patch, or continuously rehashing old tired debates about a certain clone/not clone.
"The foundation of morality is to have done, once for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge." - T. H. Huxley
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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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Fguy64 wrote:
Michael Sherwin wrote:You start talking about your engine as though she is a woman.
Haha Thankfully I'm not that far gone.
In fact my Quark was in love with Leila while I operated Leila for one of the CCTs... ;)

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Re: How to tell if you spend too much time with your engine?

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Thomas Mayer wrote:
Fguy64 wrote:
Michael Sherwin wrote:You start talking about your engine as though she is a woman.
Haha Thankfully I'm not that far gone.
In fact my Quark was in love with Leila while I operated Leila for one of the CCTs... ;)

Greets, Thomas
Sometimes when I am revisng my algorithm and expect big improvements, i have a strong feeling of anticipation, which is like the feeling I get when I am going to get laid after a long dry spell.

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