Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 20:18:18 03/03/99
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It does not have very what to speak, he was one of the best sites that
I knew in the Internet. Still yesterday, through the Komputer Korner
site, I made download of some archives. It goes to leave homesicknesses
("saudade", in portuguese language).
Good luck for some person of Canada.
Paulo Soares, from Brazil.
On March 02, 1999 at 00:21:12, Komputer Korner wrote:
>For reasons explained below this is the last you will see of me. The last tip
>for non masters is to study tactics. All sorts of tactics. Various GMs have said
>that chess is 95-97% tactics. To that end either get the book "The art of
>combination" by Postal GM M.V. Blokh or better yet buy the new program CTART 3.0
>which I review at the CCC. The computer program is simply Blokh's book put into
>a program which rates your ability in tactics and gives multiple users an ELO
>rating which surprisingly closely corresponds to your real rating.
>
>Now for the reason why I have to leave the computer chess cybersphere. I am
>being downsized by my company at the age of 48 and have come to the realization
>that if I want to be able to survive until my retirement age of 60, I will have
>to go back to school in order to get another job. To this end I will attempt to
>learn programming languages in a commercial computer business school so I will
>have no time for computer chess. To everyone that helped me over the years, I
>say thanks again for your kind consideration and a special thanks to Bob Hyatt
>who is truly the Oracle of computer chess. Hope you finally write that book on
>computer chess Bob! I owe a thanks to all the programmers who let me beta test
>and review their programs and I hope I was able to help. To all the internet
>friends I met through cyberspace, I can only say that it was a blast (even Rolf
>was funny at times). Good luck to all of you and I know it is a very short time
>until the GMs cry for mercy from the micros even at 40/2. However that won't be
>the end of chess because computer computer events will take on more importance.
>So all you computer chess freaks will be in your glory. I may answer some
>questions on rgcc for a couple of weeks at the maximum but after that I will
>have to sign off from cyberspace, So Bye for now.
>
>--
>Komputer Korner
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