Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:20:05 05/18/00
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So, my friend, besides keeping a great site you are kind of Casandra...:-) Now let me do my own guess: I think that all that you say and all that the other guys here say and many things that nobody has still said will eventually happens. As in other sports or activities, not one but many threads will emerge from the current situation. Each time a new techonology arrives, some say "this and this will happens and this and this thing will disappear". It happened with TV, it happened with music machines -remember the conflict with sindicated musicians in the 40's- , it happened with everything. In fact, what happens is that something different to all predictions happens, with only one and esential common factor: the outcome is more complicated, more variegated, more confused and more lively as anyone thought. In this case I see many things as some you talk about and others too: gladiator-kind of matches between glamorous GM and programs, tourneys between programs representing different companies or teams, tourneys as the the ones we know today, challenges between machines and national teams, you name it. Everything capable of producing money will exist, but also everything capable of producing excitment and no money, all toguether and some times even mixed in weird forms. And then we have all the many things that internet will bring. And then maybe other more complex forms of chess will be popular, let us say, in three dimensions sets with 96 figures for each player and so on. Who knows? Just think in what this chessic realm was 15 years ago; no strong programs, no ICC, no sites like kasparov one, no CCC, no, no, no. Great times are coming, indeed.. Cheers Fernando
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