Author: Johanes Suhardjo
Date: 10:24:37 05/06/98
I've been programming chess for almost 4 years. Although I spend only
about 15 minutes per day programming it, I spend a lot of time thinking
about it: in the shower, during exercising, etc. I didn't realize how
chess programming had turned me into a "psycho" until I got sick with
flu several days ago. With a splitting headache it was very difficult
to sleep, and everytime I got a sleep, I dreamed of an array of pawns
and frantically thinking how to determine an outside passed pawn most
efficiently. And everytime I was waken up by a sound telling me that
even with normal passed pawns I didn't know how to evaluate, so forget
about outside passed pawns!
After that happened many times, I decided I needed to fill my brain with
something light, non-chess. So I picked up one of the Calvin and Hobbes
comic books and forced myself to read it through my headache. (For those
who don't know, Calvin is a six years old boy who uses all kind of
"high" philosophy to avoid school works and Tigger is his stuff tiger
who comes alive in Calvin's imagination. Very funny.) Well, it worked.
I no longer dreamed of that array of pawn. In my new dream I saw a
computer screen with comic strips. At the top there's a pulldown menu
that says:
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger ...
Curious, I pressed my mouse on that menu and this is what I got:
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger attacks Pawn
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger attacks Knight
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger attacks Bishop
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger attacks Rook
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger attacks Queen
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger attacks King
Deranged Mutant Ninja Tiger stands pat
Johanes Suhardjo (johanes@farida.cc.nd.edu)
--
Renning's Maxim:
Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
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