From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 11:46:45 MDT
> (spike66 <spike66@attbi.com>):
>
> ps, is anyone here old enough to remember
> Bobby Fischer? 30 years ago he said that the
> computers are coming, guys, they *will* slay
> us one day. Not one person believed it; all
> he got was derisive laughter, for Fischer was
> insane, don't you know.
I am, and I was an active tournament player back then. Fischer
was (and still is) insane, but he certainly wasn't the only one
who knew of the inevitability of computer chess even back in
the seventies. Most of those working on software were saying
things like "...if this program were just a million times
faster...", and today they are.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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