[extropy-chat] computer chess again

[Brett Paatsch]

Spike writes:

> For those who follow these sorts of things,
> silicon and carbon are going to slug it out
> once more over the chess board starting Tuesday
> 11 November as Kasparov takes on Fritz, a
> commercially available chess program running
> on an ordinary 2.4GHz computer.  
> 
> How it thrills me to realize I can attach
> the adjective "ordinary" to such a device, to
> know that such ordinary devices can be had by
> average proles such as me for a couple days
> wages from an average paying job such as mine.  {8-]

Average my foot ;-) You are living in the US and *you*
have to look way to the left on the curve to find average
from your position. I hope you may continue to do so
for a long time yet. 

It *is* interesting about the draws. 

Regards,
Brett