Author: Paul Doire
Date: 07:09:44 12/21/00
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On December 21, 2000 at 08:37:13, K. Burcham wrote: >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. Merry Xmas, I enjoyed your vision tremendously,it is quite entertaining. I hope your vision isn't true though for another 15-20 years! I am a relative newcomer to Computer Chess Club!!!!!! Best Wishes, Paul
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