Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:22:14 03/20/00
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On March 20, 2000 at 21:28:59, Pete Galati wrote: [snip] >I think that airlines might find that Chess programs on board would tend to >generate some very upset and angry passengers when they've had a few drinks to >help them fly, and gotten their butts kicked by Tom's Simple Chess Program, so >I'd love to see the aftermath of that showing up on the 10 o'clock news. Dateline: June 13, 2000 "Air Disaster Avoided by Alert Flight Crew" Air Canada Flight 13 to Montreal had a near riot on board. It seems a certain Xie July, Nigel Tall and Garry Kasparthefriendly were on board on their way to an invitational chess tournament and were startled by some onboard entertainment equipment. Garry noticed that besided choosing a movie, he could play a chess game. Having quaffed more than a couple martini's, he stumbled into a bad position. Nigel started to kibitz, and Garry said, "Here -- you take over!" One move after another brought a worse and worse predicament for Nigel -- who (to be fair) had downed a couple pints of Guiness in a big hurry. "We just crossed the international date line!" he shouted. The flag should fall on that stupid computer!!! It just lost a whole day!" Xie thought she saw a way out, and so Nigel handed her the controls. "Hah!" smirked Garry after Xie moved, "you're in for a fork now!" Xie poured her rice wine down Garry's shirt. "Oops!" she said, "Must be turbulence." "Ha!" Xie blurted. "Games over, I won -- the screen just went black." "What's that cable doing in your hand?" asked Nigel, "You just yanked the plug!" "Not my fault." said Xie, "The darn thing just falls right out." "Give me that!" said Garry, plugging it back in... "Watch this!" Garry continued... In his abject horror, the computer by some fluke made a tremendous positional move. "THERE'S A GM IN THERE!! NO -- A WHOLE TEAM OF GM'S!!!!" Garry began to scream hysterically. As the other two joined in, it looked like a full scale riot was developing. Fortunately, the flight crew had a CO2 fire extinguisher. After emptying the full contents on the inebriated chess players, order was restored. Better yet, they were able to unthaw them in time for the Montreal tournament, so the flight crews got medals all around.
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