Author: Soren Riis
Date: 04:50:29 12/10/98
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On December 10, 1998 at 06:27:24, Harald Faber wrote: >On December 10, 1998 at 02:53:50, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>Actally this subject was discussed before in CCC. Yes computerchess seems to be >>a nearly pure boy-affair. But why? I think nobody has a good answer on that >>question. >>Georg > >Chess itself is not a female hobby/sport. I'd guess that not more than 5% of all >chessplayers are women. And those few to interest for computerchess therefore is >a hard time... personally I don't even know ONE woman interested in >computerchess. There is no complicated social skill needed to play chess. From an emotional perspective Chess not much better than what guys who are members of a radio club are doing: Trying to make as many radio contacts in 24 hours as possible. What sofisticated social skills ;-) From a female perspective the relationship between the two players is too banal and unchallinging. And Computers are just for nerds. This is why no women are interested in Computerchess - and if you happens to find a counter example it is probably not a woman. If you want women to like chess computers you will probably have to build it so it cries and wet its panties if the opponent (!) plays a weak move. This is probable still to simplistic so you will have to build in a random generator which generates the computers "emotions". Sometimes it does not want to play, sometimes it want to win, sometime get angry if it wins, and most of the time it just want to play scrapple. In short make the programme behave more like a woman ;-) Soren Riis
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