Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:05:37 11/16/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 13:26:24, Komputer Korner wrote: >While I agree in principle with your liberalism Bruce, as you get older you will >realize that since there is a time and place for everything, chess is not that >time or place for vulgarity or nudity. I have listened to others who have the >same viewpoints as yours and I can't help thinking of our desensitizing to the >violence that has taken place in society. We in Canada for the most part abhor >the gun culture in the U.S. and some other countries but even here we see >increasing desensitizing to violence. That is a slippery slope towards madness. >Young people (males mostly) have always been attracted to war and violence ( >witness the eager volunteers for the 1st and 2nd World wars and the mass >audiences for professional fake wrestling ), but do we have to put up with >violence in a chess game? Chess is one of the most violent recreational sports I participate in. "Weakoes" are always getting "crushed" or "smashed", going "under the wheels", or occasionally, "beaten like a stepchild". This may not be how your chess friends talk, but it's pretty common-place in my local chess community. I'm certainly not an innocent to this practice. In an email to a (non-chess playing) friend last night, I mentioned that in a recent tournament game my opponent had a chance to "hasta la vista" me early on, but it required a few good moves in a row and neither of us realized how strong the continuation was until the post-mortem. (I eventually won the game.) So, I guess my point is that I'm not going to worry about some funny (or unfunny) animations in a commercial computer chess product that people can choose not to buy, because there's a lot worse, right in the backyard, so to speak. Of course, this doesn't mean that you can't if you want to. Dave Gomboc
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