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Subject: Re: Fritz9 Info

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 05:25:41 06/22/05

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On June 22, 2005 at 08:00:21, Steve B wrote:

>On June 21, 2005 at 23:10:59, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Sounds very interesting , but I have listened that song before.
>>What human needs are not human-like programs, but chess machines than commit
>>human-like mistakes that give us a chance.
>>And those devises were already invented.
>>Names:
>>Champion Sensory Chhallenger, Steinitz, Excalibur, Novag Ruby, etc, etc...
>
>
>of course all true
>
>but i am afraid my friend this argument falls on deaf ears here
>many here do not even play chess themselves
>they only will pit one PC prog against the other
>
>sadly the road of the future seems to be the death of chess played by humans and
>the Silicon monster will play against itself
>humans will only stand idly by gawking at moves achieved through high speed
>number crunching using mutiple processors
>sigh..
>
>Tearful Regards
>Steve

Aww, human chess is not dead yet, Steve

We may have lost world champion Garry Kasparov as a player but Gata Kamsky is
making a come back in Hoogovens next year: http://www.coruschess.com/ I would
rather have Garry back.. Also Vassily Ivanchuk was invited, the promise he made
in New in Chess magazine that he would cook his favourite Ukrainian dish for the
organizers if invited may have had something to do with that.

In Hoogovens they serve "Erwtensoep" for everybody on the last day. With this
warm weather, not my favourite dish but nice on a cold winter's day. As long as
Hoogovens still exists, tournament chess played by humans must be alive and
well! Never been to visit the Hoogovens tournament but then we have more
tournaments here, we are probably a bit spoiled...

Groeten,
Eelco





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