Author: Michael Watters
Date: 12:59:42 12/06/04
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On December 06, 2004 at 11:52:49, Steve B wrote: >this is a topic i am very curious about >the more i come here the more i become convinced that many(if not most) of the >members do not even play chess against the PC,and perhaps do not even play chess >at all. >they watch as one PC prog plays another PC prog > >i really dont see the point of it all > >but then again,i imagine that most Members would see no point to collecting the >old computers > >still,the MAIN interest for me and most collector's i think is to PLAY A GAME OF > CHESS > >not so sure this is the main interest with the PC software Sorry about that, another null post....mouseslip ;) Your comments seem to describe the PC scene. The fascination is in the programming and the speed of the hardware, chess happens to be the vehicle. It could as easily be any complex game. Some of the followers of that hobby seem to have lost touch with human competitive chess, in the sense that they condemn machines that would knock the socks off them and most league players. Like the guy who rubbished the Fidelity Designer 2100 for not choosing Nf6xe4 - a "failure" it shared with the Tasc R30 and Pocket Fritz 2 incidentally. The best continuation was far from clear. But armed with a 2700-2800 ELO programme they think they are actually capable of chess far above that level. In the first 10-15 years of chess computer development the holy grail was always performance capable of beating the World Champion. Along the way the commercial machines picked up many cool new features. I guess that the scene looks rather sterile now compared with then. Which leads me back to nostalgia.
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