Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 09:30:15 12/09/99
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>Exper Player (against....)
>
>This guy really knows. He own three dozens programs, expend half his surplus
>money purchasing more programs, expend 3/4 his free time reading about chess
>programs, knows more or less what extensions means, from time to time he
>believes he has discovered a new, genial idea to program a chess computer and
>run to CCC to post it. He has enough tactic skill to avoid almost every threat,
>except one or two he refutes with his favourite move, take-back. With his
>strenght and the help of the couple of take-backs he aloud to himself - and then
>forget he ever alouded that to himself- he more or less manages to avoid
>inmediate defeat ,but anyway around move 25 is positionally crushed and very
>soon lose his heart and a pawn and so he usually resign with a very professional
>attitude around move 30..
I think this is the biggest here around, but it has some subgroups:
1 - "ComputerChess squanderers"
this are really ready to buy every single engine ChessBase issues, and full
Millenium packages. They can't sleep when the new engine is out until they try
it. Often they even risk family crisis. They don't dislike winboard engines, but
they rarelty quote one, for sure they hate ChessMaster x000, having had several
copies of it.
They play some games, may be they run tournaments in interfaces like Fritz or,
if they can afford, they run matches between 2 PCs.
Chess programs they own: somewhat less than what exists on the market.
2 - "Cheap ComputerChess fans"
this are cheap for vaious reasons (not because they are from Scotland) but
because they either have better goods to buy, two many kids to feed, or to many
chess books on the shelves ("unused" as she [the wife] says), or they already
have had the family crisis, and prefer to avoid the second. This suffer every
new engine is published, cause they can't have it, but they buy a new program
only once in a while (may be at X-mas, when several new programs are published).
For sure they download many winboard engines and they love ChessMaster, cause it
was the cheapest buy.
They play games, may be they run winboard turnaments.
Chess programs they own: near equal to number of years since they started playin
chess withthe computer.
3 - "Must have all at any cost ComputerChess fans"
This are those which manage misteriously to have all the engines/prgrams either
windows and dos versions whithout spending so much. How can it be? Well they
have ICQ, a good FTP program and they know that Chezz Programs can be cheap if
you just don't buy 'em.
They don't play so much, sure they run tournaments, but mostly they collect
scalps. One for each new program they manage to have on the HD.
Do they have space enough on the disk? Sure thay have, they always have money
for the hardware: they have the latest PIII 733 and two 20 GB HD (one for the
6-man tablebases only). They just don't feel to have to pay for a plastic disc
as much they pay for a metallic box....
....and they play ChessMaster only if the managed to crack the cd copy
protection, they would never care to use a program that has any copy protection.
Copy protections are essentially immoral for them!
Chess programs they own: 2 times the number of programs on the market. (How can
you? You can, you can...)
regards and marry x-mas to all af you, especially the other, like me, that are
waiting for that single time in a year near x-mas
ciao
Franz
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