Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 09:44:23 08/30/00
Dear CCC, The recent WMCC was a most interesting event. The level of play is becoming increasingly intricate and deceptive ie "like a grandmaster". In order to avoid bitterness and factionalism I suggest that you should try to purchase the top programs every two to three years. Hiarcs, Rebel/Tiger, Fritz, Shredder, Junior and MChess are good programs. This is an exciting time. The programs are good but they still lack grandmaster "finesse". In time we will see such programs but we are watching the progress and it is fascinating. The programs are better than 90% of us (Lawrence Chen)and (Larry Tamarkin) excluded. Please help the starving computer programmers and sales professionals and contribute to the further development of these marvellous diversions. BTW In five years from now the standard computer will be the equivalent of an 8 GHz machine with an internal 2 GHz data bus with the equivalent of 4 GBytes of RAM and 600 GByte "hard" data storage. The monitors will be plastic with a diagonal size of 24 inches and a peak resolution of 4000x9000 and a refresh rate of 200 Hz. I think that you will still have to turn it on but it will be in constant readiness and there will be no boot up period. Believe it or not, the machines will still not beat the top grandmasters at 40/2 chess... Tim Frohlick
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