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Subject: Re: Beauty In Chess..The Differences Between Human And Computer Play

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:34:38 01/20/05

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On January 20, 2005 at 23:27:58, Steve B wrote:

>>I expect that you have different needs and because of this you do not enjoy them
>>as much as I do.  In the same way, some people like modern art and some perfer
>>classical art (I'm a classical guy myself).  That does not mean that the modern
>>art is not just as good as the classical -- only that I fail to appreciate it as
>>much as I can the classical.
>
>and so we can end our conversation and go our seperate ways in the same
>club(CCC)
>i am a chess player and collector of the old dedicated computers with over 400
>dedicated computers in my collection
>some will say i am the premiere collector in the world but others will dispute
>that
>i would like to see chess programs more closely emulate human chess players for
>me to have any interest in todays state of the art
>
>you are a chess player and seem to be a collector of pc chess programs and i
>certainly can respect that

One question about your collection:
400 chess computers is a huge volume of equipment.  It seems to me that it would
not be much fun to just have boxes stored up to the ceiling in some big walk-in
closet.

Where do you keep 400 chess computers?  Do you have them on display?
It seems you might even make a real museum out of them to me.
If not that, then an online museum might also be nice.

The only dedicated chess computers I ever played against were the very first
models, and I am afraid that they were not very good at the time (late 1970's).

I imagine that since that time, they improved a lot.

I play against a computer so much now, that I greatly prefer the 2-D screen to a
real chess board.



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