Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:04:45 12/05/97
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On December 05, 1997 at 17:24:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I cannot be more in accord with Czub state of mind respecting old chess >computers. It seems that in the same degree we have got, lastly, >extremely strong and even unbeatable programs, full of databases and all >the frills only lacking a close photo of claudia Shiffer's ass, we miss >more and more the old, pitiful monsters, the wooden body of Champion >Chess Challenger, the Constellation plastic house, the style of that old >programs and so and so. I suppose that what we most miss is that in >those days we had some chances to win and we did. Each game was then a >real fight. Now each game has only one mistery, if we are going to lose >at once or in the ending because of that bloody pawn we lost in move 14. >I am tempted to propose here a nostalgic tournament between all the old >machines and or programs we have. I keep a Par Excellence and MMIV and I >would like to see how they fight against Mark IV or something of the >sort. Anybody interested? >Fernando Well.... I could crank up my old Apple II and run Sargon II. Or better yet, I could see if I still have my Chess cartridge for my Atari 2600 video game system! ;-) I remember being absolutely fascinated by the machines when i first started to play chess and became a regular at the now defunct Librairie Saint-Germain in Paris to watch them take on the more competent players. I'll also never forget the time when I saw a player start yelling at the Open of Aubervilliers (a huge Active Chess tournament that is held once a year) that he refused to play the machine because it was bombarding him with secret rays (I'm not making this up). His claims were utterly sincere (he is a well known crackpot on the French chess circuit) which made them that much more hilarious. Albert
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