Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:30:39 09/09/05
Curious to see how locked some of you are, pals, when looking the future of chess programs. How much yo still focus your mind in the strenght of engines, commercial or amateurish. How much you believe that the arrival of very strong amateur engines IS the new thing. To say it short, let me dare with a forecast: even for the so called "professional market" constituted NOT by GM's, but for you guys, the community of chess computers, winboard forums, Arena fans, etc, what will get you all and put you all in the mood we had in the 80's and even 90's, you remember?, the enthusiasm we had every time a new program significatively stronger appeared, when strenght was an issue for us -because to have a program or a dedicated unit 2000 ELo instead of a 1700 Elo was certaily important- and we fell on our kness facing each new arrival of that kind. But this time strenght will be not the cause. From 2659 to 2680 I cannot distinguish any difference. Engine Vs engines tourns. organizers probably can, but even they.... Even they will discover again the old taste to play because what will come soon, what will the landscape of the next 5 years, what will bewitch again all of you will be... ...a full, complete and awesome development of what surrounds the engine, NO the engine. I forecast -on the ground of what I know and what have been told- a day when your program will be not just a program with this or that engines or engines, gui, etc, but a REAL partner capable of teaching you in ways unsuspected now. It will be a full chess master at your side in more senses and meanings than you can grasp now. It will be a so entertainning thing that the sheer idea of just pitting engines will be considered sheer madness. Those, not these, will be the days. Stay tunned as I deliver one by one the novelties and portents to come.... Fernando, meteorologist and prophet.
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