<BR><BR><B><I>spike <spike66@comcast.net></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>> bounces@lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Lee Corbin<BR>> Subject: [ExI] Chess Player Behavior (was: Unfrendly AI is a mistaken<BR>> idea.)<BR>> <BR>> Spike writes<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> >> bounces@lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Healey<BR>> >><BR>> >> Do chess opponents at tournaments conduct themselves in ways that they<BR>> >> hope might psyche out their opponent? ,,<BR><BR>> ...he interrupted with a laugh and<BR>> said "Biyassis! Him, hah! You know, I deliberately<BR>> misspelled his name 'Biyass' on my scoresheet---I think it<BR>> really upsets him".<BR>> <BR>> Lee<BR><BR><BR>Great story Lee, thanks! <BR><BR>Here's mine. I was sixteen, freshly minted driver's license, filled with<BR>the wonder of a newfound freedom. The
Cocoa Florida club arranged the<BR>county tournament in a lounge of all places. That was all they could get,<BR>and it was during the day when the place was closed usually, so they set up<BR>14 tables in there. It was nice but not well enough lit even with<BR>additional lighting. But that wasn't the real problem. The real problem<BR>was they had a very lifelike painting on the wall of a nude woman. Well, I<BR>had seen such a thing in National Geographic and the occasional Playboy, but<BR>this woman, oy vey, I couldn't keep my eyes off of this painting. They<BR>musta noticed my gazing and ogling. I was doing quite well in the<BR>tournament, with an early (lucky) draw against an expert. The reprehensible<BR>malefactors set my chair facing that painting. {8^D Waves of raging<BR>hormones bashed my two remaining operable brain cells against each other.<BR><BR>But that wasn't the story. I went up against an A player in the last round,<BR>so he had about 120 rating points on me.
He was writing our moves on his<BR>scoresheet with question marks after all of my moves and exclamation points<BR>after all his. That didn't rattle me, I just did the same back on my<BR>scoresheet. (a ? means a bad move, a ! means a good move on a chess<BR>scoresheet.) Then he put his chair back and stood over the board (he was a<BR>big guy). This didn't bother me, since I know to play the board, not the<BR>man. Then he started walking over to my side of the board each time it was<BR>my move, looking over my shoulder. This mighta rattled me, but by the time<BR>he started doing that, his ass was already whooped, as I had a strong<BR>advantage in addition to a couple pawns and plenty of time on my clock, over<BR>half an hour more than he had left. So I got out of his way and let him<BR>walk around the board all he wanted, spanked his butt anyway. Or perhaps he<BR>was going around to look at the painting, I don't know. {8^D He kept<BR>playing for several moves after he was
already a rotting corpse stinking up<BR>the road, possibly in disbelief that he had actually lost to such a fool. <BR><BR>I took second in that tournament, behind the expert I had managed to draw in<BR>the first round, finishing with 4.5 of 6 points. <BR><BR>{8^D<BR><BR>spike<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
<hr size=1>Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's
<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=47093/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222">Comedy with an Edge </a>to see what's on, when.