Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:35:23 06/11/04
It is curious; each time a company advertise a new program that brings this or that frills, boards, new and pleasant features for the people and so give to us a decent reason to purchase them, two or three pros jumps and using his worst sarcasm and louder arrogance say "nobody" want those things and besides they insist -the old, very old argument- the CPU will lose such and such degree of power to process the game. So let me ask: How many people here, pros included, are higher than 2000 Elo player? Or at most 2300? So, what is the importance that a chess engine, with the frills, will play at "only 2495" instead o 2550 without the frills? IMHO, none. What is the highness to play a bare 2-D board with awfully described pieces and a preposterously ugly board? IMHO, None How many at least replace the ugly screen board by a pretty wooden board? Few What is the wrong with giving more features for the buck? None Perhaps this predilection for bare, nuded, ugly chess programs insinuate a degree of elevated, scientific mind proudly beyond appearances or so, kind of chess platonist? No And perhaps a predilection for well done things, pretty things, atractive features and so and so means that the player has a childish mind? No The bare fact is that to play programs in a PC is in itself a sort of hacker hobby, the kind of things oily kids with tick glasses facing a screen like to do all day, as farting and putting a finger into his noses every minute. At least, if we are going to do it, lets do it with the best, more pleasant program available. Long live to well done programs as Chesmaster, Majestic, Fritz, etc. Just lose that 50 Elo points, you will beat us the same. Bad taste, said O. Wilde, is a bad sign about the mind of the guy concerned. I concur. Oscar Wilde.
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