Smash/Julius3:Mighty Mouse vs Superman

[Julius Brenzaida]

What a men cannot do, a woman can
But I think there's key positions in a game where you need to look for hours, tough when you've got 49 waiting

[Carolus Rex]

I'll pass for now, too much work to do (read: too much soccer to watch)... So go ahead, Smash (or anyone else for that matter)!

As for my rating, it was way too humble to deserve a mention in this fine company. I started playing competitively (in a club) when I was 12 and stopped at the age of 20 (I'm 32 nowdays). Mostly because I went to university after finishing my military service and didn't have the time anymore.

I was never any good (no rising star label there!), rather pretty average (things haven't changed! ). I had the typical junior player approach: the opening game was fun and I studied it a lot; the middle game was ok, but the end game boring and for old people!

Maybe that feeling bred out of the many tries to check mate with king, knight and bishop against king in less than 50 moves in order to obtain the Gold Knight... To get the Bronze Knight, the Silver Knight and the Gold Knight there were 12 different tests/situations we had to master for each one of them.

My grandfather and (especially) his brother were good. They used to play each other without a board when they were working together (while sawing wood, for example). Once the brother won against Austrian GM Spielman (I think that's right?) when the champ gave a simultaneous performance. He gave me the protocol, I should still have it somewhere...

Carolus

[Sarxis]

Question:

Would you rather be the next Chess World Champion, or the designer of the next Deep Blue?

[Julius Brenzaida]

Of course, that I would rather be world champion myself. Not that is possible.
Maybe I could imagine to be a third rate couselor for a computer programmation team.

[Smash]

lets break this down

World Champion:
Work
Fortune
Glory
Pressure
No life or little beyond chess
More work

Deep Blue2 programmer:
Work
Fortune...much fortune
Retirement
Time and financing to pursue the World Championship


All lines are favorable in the programmer line

[Julius Brenzaida]

Yeah, and if you lose and suffer from it, I'd rather kick out some silicium bugs and unplug some hardware, rather than punish myself