Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:17:59 07/05/00
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On July 05, 2000 at 17:59:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 05, 2000 at 17:54:36, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: [snip] >>Curious to know: how is the "humiliation" when being beaten by CM different from >>whatever you feel when being beaten regularly by Crafty, Fritz, et al? > >I almost always feel that I have my chances. I often will look over a game, and >while licking my wounds I can say to myself, "Good grief! Look at this blunder >I made here -- that's where I went off" or things of that nature. > >CM5500 actually pushed me back below my pawn line so that I lost all development >and just simply thrashed me. Even though nobody was watching, I felt genuine >embarrassment. > >It was like I was a two year old playing Kasparov. It chewed me up, spit me >out, and picked its teeth with my spleen. I went to look for the game in question, but it has been deleted. I sent a copy of it to Komputer Korner on August 11, 1998, but I only have the reply message but not the one I sent. So I can only say that (fortunately) the game score has been lost to posterity.
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