Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 19:55:04 11/03/98
Computer Resource Psychological Opinion Pole: 1. Are you a Man or a Women? 2 Are you more than 16 years of age? 3. What was the first computer you owned, speed, ram, drives and so forth? 4. Did you own a stand-alone chess program before your first software program? 5. what was the very first chess software program you owned? 6. Were you a serious rated chess tournament competitor before you bought your first chess playing program? 7. After buying your first chess playing program, did you buy more chess playing programs or a chess database next? 8. Approximately how many chess books do you own? Chess Sets? Boards? Clocks? 9. How active a chess tournament competitor are you? 10. After buying chess software, do you still read your chess books & chess magazines, and if so how often compared to your use of chess software? 11. After buying several chess software programs, do you often buy more programs, or are you satisfied with just two or three? 12. If you have bought a lot of programs over the years, do you say to yourself, ‘I’m not going to buy any more chess software’, and then wind up buying more anyway? 13. After buying the latest chess books and chess magazine subscriptions for many years, have you now stopped (or slowed down considerably), buying them because their are more chess programs to own. Or has your purchasing of all gone up? 14. If you play on the I.C.C. (Internet Chess Club), do you now play less rated tournament chess? 15. If you play on the I.C.C., have you ever considered using the chess playing programs to increase your rating? If so, did you do so, or do good ethics prevail? 16. If you are a rated chess player, has your rating gone up or down after your years of owning these programs? 17. When playing on the I.C.C., when you lose, do yell profanities at your computer, and anyone who happens to be in the room? 18. Have you let participating in this (or other newsgroups), dominate your time, and ruin your productivity? 19. Do you spend more time in these newsgroups talking about what these programs do, than actually using them? 20. Are you an Internet addict? If so, do you keep ‘threatening’ to quit this (or other), groups, as a way to try to get back reality? If you were able to understand more than 11 of these questions, then you are a serious Internet addict, and need some kind of therapy. If you comprehended more than 15, you are in serious trouble, and should be taking some kind of medication. If you answered all 20 without difficulty, then you should just be locked up! (But with a computer with chess software, and connected to the Internet:)). mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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