Author: stuart taylor
Date: 03:41:33 12/03/04
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On December 02, 2004 at 23:59:50, Matthew Hull wrote: >On December 02, 2004 at 23:50:33, Alex wrote: > >>YE GAWD!! Here I am a man with literally Hundreds of dollars to spend!! I LOVE >>chess!! BUT! Where o where dooo I spend my money??I have all the versions of >>the chessbase programs! Perhpas NOT the latest versions of them all.. but hey! >>We all see wassup wi dat! A NEW (supposedly) version MAY only mean a rating >>difference of 20 + plus points! (Indeed that is if and I reiterate IF the SSDF >>is NOT in cahoots with chessbase! Perhaps it is not.... Understand that I am >>NOT a programmer! I am an ARDENT chess enthusiast! I will pay for NEW and >>IMPROVED! I will indeed support programmers! Heavens - I own all the >>incarnations of the KING and other engines as well. But I want results! I can >>beat most the major engines occasionally. Strength of engine is INDEED fun! I >>want MORE!! Like what? > > >Save your nickels to buy a multi-processor machine. > > >>Chess is a LONELY game. Intellectual masturbation if >>you will pardon the term! >>Give ME animated and deep personalities to play against! A veritable >>smorgasboard of personalities to play against! > > >Why don't you join a chess server. > > >>DO the research! I want to play >>against THE Nimzovich and THE alekhineanf RETI! I want a PERSON sitting across >>from me in perhaps the spanish room of Fritz! With actual quotes from Nimzo! >>INdeed ! And Nimzo's book! ANd perhaps A NE0 nimzo book as if he were alive >>today! have him be bizzare! Like stand on his head in a yoga position as he was >>reorted to have done in a tournamen especially is he looses >>! AND have the Board sounds when one make a sacrifice to be LOUDER! GET the >>idea! Insults! I need insults!! I NEED DIALOGUE!! ESPECIALLY WITH MY FAVORITE >>OLD MASTERS!! HAVE NIMZO AND TARRASCH GET IN A VIDEO FIST FIGHT! I recently >>went into a software store where they sold Fritz 8 deluxe and a cheap 20.00 >>program called "tournament chess2" I bought the cheap program. Why? Because >>it had AMBIANCE!! Power Chess had the Power chess queen that TALKED to me!! >>GET the IDEA! I love fritz --etc. Do you HEAR what I am saying?? > > >You could always try playing real people. They've got plenty of personality and >they exist in all levels of strength. Why settle for a dim facsimile? People are owned and possessed. Not by you. Come on now.... the benefits of machine over humans are huge, and they're not bad at all! All what's needed, is that some of them should just be slightly slightly better in one or two things, then you have a wonderful partner any time. People are for different purposses. But in this terrible world, I suppose, some people see other people as objects, and therefore that's enough for them. S.Taylor
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