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Subject: Re: Pentium IV --- Do We Need the Power ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:22:05 08/22/00

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On August 22, 2000 at 18:18:39, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>On August 22, 2000 at 16:21:36, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Dear CCC,
>>
>>Just think boys and girls, in less than a year from now we will have the Pentium
>>Four machines that run at 1400 MHz with a 400 Mhz bus and a data throughput of
>>3.2 GBytes per second.  Now you know that with all that speed we can have
>>programs with enormous databases.  Do we want the programs for analysis only or
>>do we want to lose to them 100% of the time?
>>
>>A while back I was talking about interactive programs that mimic voluptuous
>>female chess opponents.  Well I guess that we will all be totally addicted to
>>playing Laura Croft and enjoying the slow torture.  It could be fun.
>>Chessmistress 1.01  Hmmmmm?
>>
>>Any comments Fernando?
>>
>>Tim Frohlick
>
>Hi Tim:
>Well, I scarcely see a reason to be excited for the prospect of a chess machine
>playing at that speed. For what, if even chessmaster 2100 running in a 286 can
>give me a good mauling from time to time. So the only good reason for just a
>faint spark of interest  in that monster would be what you said about the
>voluptuous female opponent. But, how much voluptuous? With that processing power
>we should expect something much better that the lady of Ananova.com  reading the
>news. I suppose that Demi Moore puting her clothes off with each half a point of
>score you can get over the program could be enough to become interested

I am against this idea.
I want to see more women play chess and I think that this kind of idea is not
going to attract women.

It is also easy to cheat and get the draw or wins against the program by using
another program.

Uri



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