Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 07:57:21 03/02/99
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On March 02, 1999 at 00:21:12, Komputer Korner wrote:
>For reasons explained below this is the last you will see of me. The last tip
>for non masters is to study tactics. All sorts of tactics. Various GMs have said
>that chess is 95-97% tactics. To that end either get the book "The art of
>combination" by Postal GM M.V. Blokh or better yet buy the new program CTART 3.0
>which I review at the CCC. The computer program is simply Blokh's book put into
>a program which rates your ability in tactics and gives multiple users an ELO
>rating which surprisingly closely corresponds to your real rating.
>
>Now for the reason why I have to leave the computer chess cybersphere. I am
>being downsized by my company at the age of 48 and have come to the realization
>that if I want to be able to survive until my retirement age of 60, I will have
>to go back to school in order to get another job. To this end I will attempt to
>learn programming languages in a commercial computer business school so I will
>have no time for computer chess. To everyone that helped me over the years, I
>say thanks again for your kind consideration and a special thanks to Bob Hyatt
>who is truly the Oracle of computer chess. Hope you finally write that book on
>computer chess Bob! I owe a thanks to all the programmers who let me beta test
>and review their programs and I hope I was able to help. To all the internet
>friends I met through cyberspace, I can only say that it was a blast (even Rolf
>was funny at times). Good luck to all of you and I know it is a very short time
>until the GMs cry for mercy from the micros even at 40/2. However that won't be
>the end of chess because computer computer events will take on more importance.
>So all you computer chess freaks will be in your glory. I may answer some
>questions on rgcc for a couple of weeks at the maximum but after that I will
>have to sign off from cyberspace, So Bye for now.
>
>--
>Komputer Korner
We will sincerely miss you.
I hope you can get back here in some ways.
I wish you the best.
Christophe
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