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Subject: To hear, but not see.

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 22:50:06 10/30/02

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The Power Chess is the machine for you.
But I don't like when a woman teaches me as she does. I have no emancipation.
Perhaps my age can be a little excuse.

Georg


n October 30, 2002 at 23:15:10, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>
>Who needs to hear the needling snide remarks of a sneering male voice?  I would
>much rather play against a talking chess engine which was female!  If the Fritz
>people were to put out a female version, I would expect her to be called Fritzie
>or Fritzette, or some such.
>
>The female voice should make encouraging &/or approving remarks, when your chess
>moves were especially good.  Never an unkind word.  VERY supportive!
>
>The voice should be that of Marilyn Monroe.
>
>The comments should be those one would expect to hear from a girlfriend of
>loving wife.
>
>Lots of cooing and such.
>
>Chess engine programmers should solicit the help of female chessplayers who have
>a great sense of humor to make the voice for their engines.
>
>The comments would have to be reasonably tasteful.  We wouldn't want to give the
>Puritanical Zealots an axe to grind.
>
>I would enjoy playing against such a chess engine.
>
>Bob D.



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