If you have one hidden in a closet,. I advice you to take it out, undust it and play it if still works; the pleasures that they gives cannot be supplied by engines. It is not only the pleasant fact you have chances to win, but the experience in itself.
A screen will always be only a screen even if you try to cover the fact with a real board at the side of the computer.
Losing miserably my time regards
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How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated unit?
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
I do! Also I take the sadistic pleasure to see my chess engine crush them. Although some strong dedicated units still resist it... which is a great embarrassment, considering the horse power my computer has, and is a big source of motivation to keep improving it.fern wrote:If you have one hidden in a closet,. I advice you to take it out, undust it and play it if still works; the pleasures that they gives cannot be supplied by engines. It is not only the pleasant fact you have chances to win, but the experience in itself.
A screen will always be only a screen even if you try to cover the fact with a real board at the side of the computer.
Losing miserably my time regards
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
Rarely I play the Novag Citrine.
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
Strange Ted....it's a fine piece of gigAdminX wrote:Rarely I play the Novag Citrine.
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
Sadly Doc, I wish I still owned a Novag Sapphire. It was my most favorite of all. I could take it with me anywhere.Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Strange Ted....it's a fine piece of gigAdminX wrote:Rarely I play the Novag Citrine.
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
Fern,I deeply admire your point of view related to the topic....fern wrote:If you have one hidden in a closet,. I advice you to take it out, undust it and play it if still works; the pleasures that they gives cannot be supplied by engines. It is not only the pleasant fact you have chances to win, but the experience in itself.
A screen will always be only a screen even if you try to cover the fact with a real board at the side of the computer.
Losing miserably my time regards
Fern
As for myself I have a different philosophy:
I am an eng-eng tester and a rating list builder as many computer chess freaks do nowadays with one big exception:
I play hundreds & hundreds of chess engines and their updated versions in my running tournaments and include myself in the my private rating list....this means that I play seroius chess games with big concentration producing a beautiful chess games which I collect in a separate database,I improve my opening theory and watch myself going up and down in my rating list....that's what charges me through the last 10 years or so
You can call me a freak but a happy freak I am regards,
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
So what happened TedAdminX wrote:Sadly Doc, I wish I still owned a Novag Sapphire. It was my most favorite of all. I could take it with me anywhere.Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Strange Ted....it's a fine piece of gigAdminX wrote:Rarely I play the Novag Citrine.
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
Aha, at last it went the way of the DodoDr.Wael Deeb wrote:So what happened TedAdminX wrote:Sadly Doc, I wish I still owned a Novag Sapphire. It was my most favorite of all. I could take it with me anywhere.Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Strange Ted....it's a fine piece of gigAdminX wrote:Rarely I play the Novag Citrine.
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Don't tell me it passed away
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
Sad but true....AdminX wrote:Aha, at last it went the way of the DodoDr.Wael Deeb wrote:So what happened TedAdminX wrote:Sadly Doc, I wish I still owned a Novag Sapphire. It was my most favorite of all. I could take it with me anywhere.Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Strange Ted....it's a fine piece of gigAdminX wrote:Rarely I play the Novag Citrine.
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Re: How Many of You Still Play -even not much- a dedicated u
I also did this with chessmaster personalities in my stundent years.Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Fern,I deeply admire your point of view related to the topic....fern wrote:If you have one hidden in a closet,. I advice you to take it out, undust it and play it if still works; the pleasures that they gives cannot be supplied by engines. It is not only the pleasant fact you have chances to win, but the experience in itself.
A screen will always be only a screen even if you try to cover the fact with a real board at the side of the computer.
Losing miserably my time regards
Fern
As for myself I have a different philosophy:
I am an eng-eng tester and a rating list builder as many computer chess freaks do nowadays with one big exception:
I play hundreds & hundreds of chess engines and their updated versions in my running tournaments and include myself in the my private rating list....this means that I play seroius chess games with big concentration producing a beautiful chess games which I collect in a separate database,I improve my opening theory and watch myself going up and down in my rating list....that's what charges me through the last 10 years or so
You can call me a freak but a happy freak I am regards,
Dr.D
Now I have a novag citrine that I rarely use and a DGT which I often use to play online slow games, and sometimes against my engine.