Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Rebel Tiger and idiots....... or at least ignorant.

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 11:07:16 01/08/01

Go up one level in this thread


>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.

Yes, I believe on this also. I don't think anyone enjoys _that_ much watching
when computers play against humen (unless some DB-Kasparov or similar). But, if
it is a program that _you_ bought running on _your_ computer that _your_ daddy
bought and operating on _your_ computer (or non-computer...) account. Yep, that
is allmost like _you_ are playing. Then these guys (or gals) probably feel that
these victories are somehow their achievements. But when this happens against
other computer accounts...insanity...

Severi



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.