Author: K. Burcham
Date: 05:37:13 12/21/00
an open letter to all my old computer chess buddies, that i used to play against in the year 2000. well these little pc boxes we have setting on our desks now are smaller than our phone. and so quiet, just a small hardly noticeable humm. yup i used to stuff those turbo fans in my homemade pcs, lol. i used to put two fans on the processor, one on the video card, one in a bay blowing on my hard drive. i would put two fans in the front blowing in, and two in the rear of my case blowing out----man we were crude back then, cavemen. and now we have what the guys are calling 0 heat factor. amazing how far it has come. can you believe it no fans, no noise. cant believe how we just hang these thin monitors on the wall now. with these monitor frames, they look like a picture hanging on the wall. lol, and now my pc uses the latest thought control. i just put on my wireless, light weight headset, and i am ready to control my pc. my hands feel so useless now compared to what i used to do with the mouse and keyboard. it feels weird i just sit here with my arms folded surfing the net. man those were the days. i wonder what all those pc chess freaks are doing with their time now,,, chess.net, icc,,,,,only humans there now. no more gamers, no more kids with chess master. shredder8 on the old 10 gig processors are gone. man that thing was something else. and the fritz12, it would hit 900,000 kns. and now, the processors, the latest is the intel-amd (they merged) 2105. this is the code for their latest version of their hot rod processor. big deal what can you do with it. everything is instantaneous now anyway. but the chess programmers will use it in their annual world chess pc championships. lol, we used to try to do everything we could to increase kns, now they dont even talk about it anymore. now the pc just looks at the position and moves. there are no more time settings, no more clock settings for the software. all games in the tournaments now are 99.6% drawn. and i just laugh when i watch a game at the world championships. the peices move so fast it is just a blur, the peices are projected on the board, it looks so real. the programmers get no satisfaction out of anything anymore, the only thing left is win, lose or draw in 9 seconds. yup they are getting about an average of 130 moves in 9 seconds, all for a draw. and we used to think opening books were such a big deal, they have become obsolete with the new systems. and remember chess knowledge, we used to really discuss this. no more chess knowledge, it has now become pure calculations. so this has made it so boring for the old chess pc freak, they finally just quit playing. it got to where the hardware was so fast and the advancements in the programs made everyone just draw. i think there are only two chess sites left on the internet now, just for the human games. and the software, these guys used to make some big bucks selling this chess software. no more, those days are over. it has come down to about 12 programmers that work only to try to win the next years chess pc world tournament. the programs are only written for this tournament now. the 9 second format. its crazy. well i kinda miss bob, and sarah and tim, and all the guys at the old forum. those were some good times.
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