Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:22:40 12/09/99
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On December 09, 1999 at 12:30:15, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
Great. Excellenten addenda tyo my fisr sketchy effort. Bravissimo!
Fernando
>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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