For those who have followed this blog mainly about my experiences on online chess you would think by now I have faded out and rode out on that black horse I sketched or drew from a digital picture and posted surely considered by some as a counterfeit drawing designed to look like an artist drawing a creation of original creation surely not a copy of a trace job. As I have stressed so many times tracing is an introduction to art it teaches the fundamental ways to create curves and lines structured to form pictures in which an ordinary person not skilled or gifted can produce his or her own drawing and call it one of their own. Someone had to draw it and if you did it was you. How wonderful! I was informed that online chess in a particular format was ended due to technological advances in other games and that this online chess is outdated. It has been some four years beginning in 2009 that I began writing about on line chess and you can scroll back with this blog to verify this fact. But machines as we all know or more precisely chess playing machines are faster than humans in making calculations and play better chess than the top rated grandmaster in chess or is a misconception of mine? You must decide. I can only offer my perceptions. The industrialization didn't come around for no reason at all machines will continue to out perform humans or at least aid in the manufacturing and productivity of our economy. Yes I am a sore loser when I get beaten by a human in chess but that is my problem. But I know some human chess players online use computers to up their ratings but to me it doesn't matter that they are cheating. Magnus Carlsen uses computers to practice up his game does he not? I say let computers play me and so what if they beat me. A vehicle on wheels can beat me or any human we all know that and I say so what? Let these chess playing computers train us to be better chess players but I say I'm not going to play any more chess games unless I can derive a means of fun entertainment to be so serious defeats the whole purpose of the game. It has to be game. Anybody want to have a little fun playing this game of chess can do it.
One of my biggest wins on online chess was when I lost a game. Now how could that be? Well my opponent has soundly beaten me and I suggested how could he had beaten me when my chess playing computer was one of the best so how in the world could his chess playing machine beat mine? Oh God this was fun for me and I had lost! He blurted out that oh no he would never do such a thing and cheat in this game of chess by letting a machine play for him. But of course I would never use a computer to play for me just to up my ratings. But I sure was having fun bluffing my opponent that I was doing so. I lied. That is a bluff. In poker bluffing is all about the game. So who says poker is more fun than chess. In chess I love to bluff! For those of you who regard chess a purely sacred intellectual stimulus I offer my apology.
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