Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 10:54:31 03/01/00
Buying computer chess programs or writing them is like buying or building an automobile. The product promises to give us the ultimate in features and then we become accustomed to them and grow weary until a new creation comes along. Yes, we can be nostalgic and long for a simpler way of life and resurrect our old copies of Rexchess 2.3 and play them on our old 386 computers but then the fascination fades and we long for 5,6,7 or 8 man tablebases and a database of billions of master level and above games. We want to have every chess problem solved in less than one minute and have explanations to accompany this. There is no solution to this except to keep on buying faster machines and bigger databases and slicker programs. When the ultimate chess computer comes along in fifty to one hundred years from now what will we do? Then we will long for the simpler life and take out our copies of Deep Junior and play them on our quad 2.5 Ghz computers with 25 inch 3D monitors and then the fascination will fade and we will once again hope for a better system. There is no satisfying the computer chess buying public, Amen Tim Frohlick
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