Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Re: Sam Sloan and Family make the cover of ChessBase Magazine Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:25:23 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:18:26 -0500, G Triest wrote: >=A0I play chess. Everyone I play thinks I am good at it. >=A0I know better - I am probably at the low end of tournament= players. >=A0I like the game though. I stopped playing chess in 1969 when the world champion= Northwestern University Chess 4.0 by Slate and Atkins on a CDC 6600 got good= enough to require serious concentration to beat . New Years Eve `69 or= `70 a friend of mine who had been on the MIT chess team found himself= in deep trouble before he took it seriously and fought his way back to dominance . The program wouldn't concede tho , and we blew a= couple of hundred if not thousand dollars in unconsumed computer account= watching it spin it electrons trying to optimize the unoptimizable . I've got no patience for games . I'd rather program them than= play them . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Pix+ : .CoSy.MidWinterParty 17 =A0:= http://cosy.com/y04/MidWinter17.htm Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/