Author: Will Singleton
Date: 22:53:18 03/20/00
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On March 20, 2000 at 22:22:14, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Dann, That was pretty good, but I worry about you sometimes. Getting out enough? Exercise and all that? :)
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