I kinda like <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 7px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 7px; ">Zhigalko but then I like the thin, intense type. Carlsen is way too basketball A-team for me (memories of getting beat up in high school), but yes, I can see how the novelty of a good-looking jock/chess master would turn on G.Q. and super models.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 7px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 7px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 7px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 7px;">d.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 7px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 7px;"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/17 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">On Behalf Of </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Darren Greer<br><br><b><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></b></span></p>
<div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">>…</span></b><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> I also predicted that when that happened we would either think better of computer intelligence, worse of human thinking, or worse of chess, and that if history was a guide, we would downgrade chess."</span></span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span><span>d.<span style="color:#1F497D"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">That sounds like a good prediction, but it hasn’t worked that way really. Computers are better than all humans now, even the commercial versions that run on laptop computers. Human vs human chess is still played, the prize funds are higher than ever, the highest rated human (Carlsen) is dating a supermodel and has been hired to sell clothing for G-Star.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">This may be a special case however, for Carlsen may be the first male chess grandmaster in history who is not an ugly geek. Odd, for it seems about 80% of the top female chess players are knockout gorgeous, but we lads at that level are 80% radioactive ugly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Actually Darren, you are a valuable one to judge this contest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Scroll all the way down in this link and compare:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7014" target="_blank">http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7014</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
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