Author: Robert Pawlak
Date: 13:22:27 02/11/01
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On February 11, 2001 at 09:27:15, John Wentworth wrote: >Most people in this forum have purchased at least a few chess programs and have >commented on how they do against another program. Are people in here spending >money on software just so they can play it against another program or are we >actually using it? I would willing to bet that the majority of us play the >programs only 10% of the time or less, I certainly could be wrong though. Since I live in a remote rural area, I play against my programs quite a bit. There are some advantages to this. There is no waiting for an opponent, and no bad sportsmanship to deal with either. > I have read in here of people wanting to know what kind of PC to buy just so >they can have a tough chess program, incredible!, someone is actually going to >spend perhaps thousands of dollars just so they can have a tough chess program. > > I have spent a lot of money on this stuff too, I look back on all this money >and think what I could of done with it, I must be nuts! Like the old saying >goes, a fool and his money are soon parted. Oh well, I guess I'll go see how >much they are getting for Fritz6a now :( Ahh yes, well at least you aren't out drinking... At least, that's what I tell my wife :-). But seriously, you can look at this another way. Everyone here is subsidizing R&D to advance the state of the art in computer chess playing algorithms and analysis software, so you should feel good about your habit. Bob
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