Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:10:55 08/16/01
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On August 16, 2001 at 11:19:08, William Wentworth wrote: >To tell you the truth, I'm not much of a GM an not much of a computer whiz >either. This hobby started when I got clobbered time and time again on Fics, I >felt kind of duped, humiliated and thought a chess proggy would help me out. >The first one I came across on the net was Gnuchess, Gnuchess needs Winboard, in >Winboard you can also run Crafty, Crafty can also run in Fritz, in Fritz you can >also run Junior but Shredder is the champ or maybe Tiger is better and you can >also build your own opening book and import all games of Dr.Hyatt's Enormous and >all games of the Dann Corbitt site. >Long story short, I spent about $ 600 on software not counting the electricity , >not counting hogging my dad's hardware and even with my home-built opening book >I'm still losing almost _every_ time on all the chess servers I checked out. >What is wrong here ? What do I need to do to win on the chess servers ? >Our ancient hardware (400 Mhz /32 Mb base memory) ? >Our operation system (Windows 2000) ? >Our slow Internet connetion (My dad's LAN) ? >Maybe a commercial dial-in connenction like Blue Light will yield better results >? If you play on a 400 mhz machine you'll get killed if you play other computers. Almost everyone is running on much, much better. bruce > >Wacky Willow
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