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

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 07:06:53 08/23/00

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On August 22, 2000 at 19:22:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Come on, Uri, there are not ideas here, but jokes! Do not be so serious!
Fernando



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