Author: stuart taylor
Date: 07:05:28 05/15/02
This is not a url which I'm intending to post here, nor something to do with some GM's comments, but precisely what I asked. What brought us to computerchess, and what keeps us at it, and what are we looking for in it? I think all this is one of the most relevant points for discussion on this forum, but we don't seem to want to think into ourselves. But it is clear that different people on this forum have slightly different aspects of interest in this. Well, for me, it was origionally a fascination with the fact that computers were not that good and it was a big job trying to get them to think like a human being, yet it seemed that chess is purely mathematical which makes it all the more strange that it was so difficult to get in on computer. So therefore it must be that there is something deeper behind it, and it fascinated me to see how much of what ever might be deeper, that computers can do. It was like a bridge between the physical and the spiritual. A fascinating suspicion (that there could be such a thing). AND, I felt that my chess computers were a little bit like a human companion, and the whole idea was baffling. Also, I wanted to feel what it's like to play a GM, and to constantly try again and again to see if I could ever speak on the same terms, atleast, if not ever to draw or win. Of course, computers never satisfied me completely as they worked on a completely diferent system, so there was not much comparrison to humans. But it started from an interest and fascination with CHESS. What about some others of us? S.Taylor
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