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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chess.com offers what they are billing as a software chess teacher who goes over your games and suggests improvements. It is a fun little toy kinda, but really it is little more than software-generated wisecracks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>It really has me thinking about how to make my own instructional software which produces little more than software-generated wisecracks. That would be a hoot.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I was playing black in a timed game (10 minute, no increment, already running short on time but he wasn’t, higher rated opponent 1920-something) and I was clearly getting my ass whooped.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In this position, playing black, I found the move which stirred the Chess.com software’s artificial soul and gained me its artificial admiration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From this position, black to play, I put mate on the board under time pressure in 7 more moves, the last three of which were forced.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chess is a terrible waste of an otherwise functional mind.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I want to write software which instructs proles using witty instructional sarcasm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=399 height=399 style='width:4.1562in;height:4.1562in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D81750.6A9D0ED0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Black to play and win.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>