Author: Steve B
Date: 13:15:01 12/06/04
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>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. yes,i think this is the case the culmination of this is where two progs are set against each other with the player not even present to watch the games the player uses auto 232 or some other device to pit two progs against each other and then walks away from the computer.. results are then posted here..entire tournaments are even conducted this way or when a chess position is posted and calls are then made to "START YOUR ENGINES!! then we have people rushing to their favorite progs..entering the position and then they cut and paste reems of computer analysis here that no one really reads the human is then a mere messanger and errand boy so to speak for the computer scary stuff really Best Steve > >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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