Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 11:25:35 05/03/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 10:44:22, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On May 03, 1999 at 09:03:48, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: > >>I don't see why it would have a great impact. Being hardware based, it would >>cost significantly more, and there are many people who would be reluctant to pop >>open their case, and toss in a card, when they could more easily do a simple >>software install. >> >>And why? Find me a non-GM who can regularly beat Fritz or Rebel or Genius on a >>PII400. I doubt you'll find one. Heck, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who >>could regularly beat Crafty on a Pentium 200 MMX. To most people, it makes no >>real difference whether their program is FIDE 2500 or FIDE 2650....they get >>their clock cleaned either way. I'm a Master, and I can't really tell much of a >>difference between Fritz running on my P5/75 laptop, and on my 266 at home. I >>get whumped pretty regularly by both. So why would it make much difference to >>the average (USCF 1500) player whether he was outrated 1200 point, or a mere >>1000? There is n o real advantage to having DBjr, other than being able to say >>that you own the strongest computer on earth. >> >>Chris >> >> > >Hi Chris: >You are right and at the same time completely wrong. You miss the motivation >aspect that moves all this industry and ourselves as customers. Yes, we are all >beated regularly since a long time ago. And so, in terms of sheer reason, we >should have abandoned purchasing activities in the beginnings of the 90,s or >so, maybe before. I am sure that 90% of people here is beated sistematically by, >say, Chesmaster 3000 IF take backs are not alouded. Nevertheless, we still keep >purchasing. Why? I have tried sometimes to develop a theroy about this, but we >do not need it to recognize the fact we purchase and purchase and that we are >all the time asking for more strenght. Is like the obsession to sharpen your >pencil beyond any need to do that. Or we try to imagine how it would be to play >Kasparov or the like. Or we prefered to be defeated by a GM than by a "mere" IM. >To lose against, say, K-Chess Elite is a crude way to recognize how a bad player >you are; to lose againts a GM say nothing about your force, except the obvious >fact you are not a GM. And probably there are more reasons. So, let me bet this: >if ever Deep Blue Junior appears in the market, 99,99% of people here will rush >to the shop to buy. >Truly yours >Fernando >> I think you are correct, in that 99.99% of ther people *here* will buy it; I certainly will. But we are collectors and afficinados...we love computer chess for it's own sake. We will buy anything...just ask my wife how much chess software I already have :) But I think we are a relatively small minority. I think that the sizeable majority of purchasers of professional-class chess software are tournament players, who look at features, cost, benefits, and advances when they look to make a purchase. They don't want to purchase Rebel 47 simply because the last one they own is rebel 46.1; there needs to be something useful to them in order to spend the $$$. I think most of them will look at Baby Blue at $249 and USCF 2700, and Rebel 11 or Fritz 6 (with more features) at $79 and USCF 2600, and decide on one of the latter. It will be interesting to see, though. Take care, Christopher >> >> >>On May 02, 1999 at 12:01:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi all: >>>If the article by the father of Deep Blue -look at Gambitsoft- is not just an >>>exercize of rethoric, maybe next year w'll have a card for our PC with a kind of >>>home Deep Blues that according the man would be capable of beating the world >>>champ. Any of you knows more about the feasibility of that? And what will happen >>>to the rest of the industry -rebel, m-chess, etc- if such a monster really >>>arrives to our hands? Opinions? >>>Fernando
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