Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 22:05:46 06/02/98
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On June 02, 1998 at 19:17:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >It seems, as Bert Seifrits has informed in his site, that SSDF people is >ready to go; at most they would be there until end of the year. Sure if >that happens a lot of people will think was due to the attacks they >suffered from many, but I wonder if that would be just the catalist of >an old, long term process. Don't you think, don't you feel or smell that >all this, the entire chess computer community, is in the fringe of >absolute boredom with things like how they are now? Aren't we all stuck >in a cluster of ideas and behaviours that now does not fits with current >realities? List of SSDF, by example, sounds to me like something full of >sense when advances in strenght were the relevant and dramatic issue >each year... Were we to get an expert level progranm this year, 1984? >Would we see in 1985 a 2200 elo program? Could we get in 1986 a program >capable of beating us half of the time? Compare that with the following >question: are we going to see a program with 2560 elo instead of 2540 >next month? >SSDF list and his peoolle was born in the infancy of chess comnputers >and so has lost hgis charm,. I imagine the people there doing the test >more by inerce than by love or interest. The great question has been >answered and the kick is no more. Maybe by the same reason, messieurs >les moderators, we are here writting more and more non chessic threads; >maybe is just a way to get out of a somewhat suffocating stuff. Or maybe >is just me. That's the reason I am writting this: I want to know if it >is just me that got deadly bore or there are more plople that share the >same feelings. >fernando I agree. I was member in SSDF 14 years ago. But I went out from it, when they became only pc-programs. My fascination was also the often beautiful chesscomputers with their pieces of wood or plastic. We borrowed those nice things, and let them play to each other in our homes. It was not only strength that was of interest, but also how long you could play on battery, how big they were, how pieces looked like and so on. And every move was manually. Nowadays with autoplayers, nobody follows the games. But if you only talk of chessplaying, you get much more for the money today. But as I said, not so exciting as it was before. Georg
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