Author: Carey
Date: 16:48:30 09/11/05
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On September 11, 2005 at 19:21:27, Fernando Villegas wrote: >What you candidly say about being such a nasty player -I am, too- but interested >in this history of old programs and his autjors is, I think, another example >about how we, humans, substitute one thing for the other. As much literary You could be right. Maybe it was the timing, too. I had played video games before... Namely "Pong". It got rather boring pretty quick. When the atari 2600 came out, I didn't really care all that much. But there was something about later seeing the game system in the store actually playing chess, and you could walk right up and play a few moves. There was just something about that... I was just in the right mood and at the right time and place to get hooked. (And yes, I decided to get an Atari-2600 and a few games... And then later I got my first home computer... And yes, years later I wrote a chess program for it. And yes, it beat me too...) I wonder if anybody has disassembled the program... (There'd be no chance of getting the original source, since it was commercial and done specifically for Atari.) >critics gives vent, it is said, to his rage because of his uncapability to write >a book, so we, many of us, gives vent to our chess dumbness with this obsession >with chess computers. >In Chile we have a saying. Probably is universal: >"The guy who knows, do; the guy who does not, teach...." Yup. Some variation of that saying is pretty much everywhere.
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