Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 00:40:46 09/10/05
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On September 09, 2005 at 18:22:32, Peter Berger wrote: >"Lastly, my personal opinion is: ultimately only tournaments count. At a >tournament you show up with your best. Your special settings. Your best >tournament lines. Your best hardware. You work extra hard to improve the >engine for a month prior. This is why winning vs Shredder at the World Champs >counts more to me than beating it on some random guys computer 1000 times." and the event of a championship is also a big thing that helps the people to meet, that makes us enjoy computerchess. we like chess programs, but mainly we are interested in talking about this with OTHER HUMAN BEEINGS. computerchess is not about prgs alone. the programs are only the vehicle to talk with people having different opinions. I enjoy talking with spanish, french, american, english, ... programmers or operators or visitors while watching the event. the event counts. If ICCA or ICGA would have planned the event better the way the visitors and people at home would have been able to enjoy the event, computerchess would have grown over the years. but in opposite to this, they mainly played in a small room, unknown in the town, unable to open windows, doors , locked for visitors, with no internet connection, and nobody knew what is going on or would be. this way you cannot bring computerchess (the VEHICLE !!) to the people. what we need is something new. we need to show the big mass of people that computerchess is not a fight of companies who try to make money, or of an computerchess organisation only interested in existing. computerchess is the fight of ideas !! the ideas fight. its a kind of culture fight without the people killing each other! computerchess is a chance ! It works for kids, it works for adults and it works for old people. anybody can enjoy computerchess. its IMO the best, better then human chess, because people can discuss the content live ! they don't have to be SILENT during the game. computerchess is the best thing to bring chess to the people. it is NOT about something humans cannot follow anymore. it is about chess more than human chess. its a vehicle.
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