Author: Edward Screven
Date: 10:57:53 01/08/01
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>>>I don't think you can begin to try to understand the psyche of people that >>>run computers on the chess servers. I understand why "authors" do this. It >>>is a great development and debugging approach. But as to why non-authors would >>>spend the amount of time they do to play online? Don't have a clue. >> Perhaps these people simply enjoy watching Computers play chess? > >That isn't it. Otherwise they would just connect to ICC and observe one of >the dozens of computer vs computer games _already_ in progress. I have never >seen a period of time where there were no computer games already in progress... > >There is more to it than that.. i think that people have an instinctive urge to associate themselves with winners. for chess heads, one way to do that is operate a strong program on a server. for the general population, another way is to become a rabid fan of a successful sports teams. of course, it isn't rational. but then much human behavior isn't.
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