Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 02:19:31 04/09/99
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On April 09, 1999 at 04:26:04, odell hall wrote: >Hi CCC > > According to Andy soltis (chess life april 99 p.14) Bobby fischer disclosed >during his 1992 comeback that he used a computer to keep a file of games. "But I >don't play against it" says Bobby. Having thought about this remark I thought >it was kind of odd, and I wonder if bobby fischer is in fact telling the truth. > I find it hard to believe that a chess player can resist playing >chess,especially when there is few humans around to play, regardless of the fact >that it is a computer. Or was it the fact that bobby had very little respect for >the strength of computers? It is possible that this may have been the case, >although I don't know how strong micro programs were in 1992. Actually I have >wondered many times whatever bobby fischer presently plays some of the top >programs today in his spare time, I would love to get ahold of such games if in >fact they exist. I would be willing to bet that he has played the top programs >many times and lost a bunch. Apparently he had no problem playing chess >computers when they were very weak (grenbaltt Program ?). I think he would have played against computers, and when he said "But I don't play against it", I think he might mean that on occasion he has played against computers, but not all the time. Plus when he said he used a computer to keep a record of games, maybe it was just a database program, or it could have been a normal computer with a series of TXT files that just stored the games. But again this is Fischer and I say who cares !!
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