Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 14:01:35 12/21/00
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Good one! I have my own (biased i know!), pridiction too; Chess Club membership sours! Everyone carries their very own World champion chess program in the back pocket, like people used to carry MCO. Using it in the chess tournaments is legal just like allowing people to use calculaters in the a math exam, because everyone has them. Marshall Chess Club has expanded to 100 clubs across the nation with ten's of thousands of members, because face to face chess is the most fun, and it is a social indecrestion to use a program when going out to the club. Average guy on the street likes chess as much as Baseball, Golf or Tennis, because he or she has a better shot at making the big bucks with it and knows it. In fact people are getting smarter because they are sick of these mere athetic games where players get 200 million dollars or more, and ticket prices go way up. Because chess is still inexpensive, fast and fun, and a lot of the kid players have grown up to understand it. Chess pays more but is still a less expensive, but equally attractive spectater sport then any other game, whether you watch it on the World Intranet or actually take a hover-car to get there... 2005 has been a great year!! Larry T. 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.
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