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Subject: The Sorrowful cycle of every Professional Computer Chess Player

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 13:04:52 12/20/99


From time to time we begin monday with the feeling that at last we have learned
chess, that we are not going anymore to fall in stupids traps, that something in
our minds has finally fitted in his place. Then we decide to play a tournament
to finally show those bloody machines who is the master. So we pick up three or
four of our top programs and we begin to play and in two days we discover that
at 40 in 120, 60 in five minutes, all the game in 30, with or without Fisher
time counting, with black or with whites and with a beer or not at the side of
the board we are severely mauled, crushed, humiliated and scorned.
“Well, what’s the big thing” we say, “these monster are at last 2450 as even
Hyatt say, so no a miracle they can win me, but that does not probe nothing”.
After saying that we decide to test our strength against a somewhat obsolete
crop of programs, older ones with which you think you are in conditions to
deploy your true force and genius. So you pick up Hiarcs 4, Chessmaster 4000 and
maybe Genius 1 and you play against them games at 40 in 90, 10 seconds per move,
five minutes all the business or 15 minutes the first 40 moves and you are
defeated, overwhelmed, suffocated and cuted in pieces. OK,  but then you say:
“well, what’s the big deal if anyway these programs are at last 2300 and surely
I am not”.
So you open your vaults and a new crop of dusty programs see the light of the
sun,  this time Chessmaster 3000, Mchess 1,XX,  Rex and maybe one or two Atari
chess game that you can run in a special console you downloaded for the purpose.
Once you did so, you begin to play at 40 moves in 45 minutes, full game in 3
minutes, 60 moves in one hour and a half and although your big talent let you
get wonderful winning positions, every one of  these piece of shit get your King
in a comb of 5 ply and you  are checkmated, but then you say, “Well, this is
what happens when you play inferior programs and so you never convince yourself
of really concentrate, so I must play with top programs that  make me play a lot
better...”
So next monday you pick up Century, Genius 65,5 etc and....and....and...
Fernando



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