The Future of Dedicated Chess Computer Players

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The Future of Dedicated Chess Computer Players

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The grave, with a previous station in the old age home and without our toys. It will be probably a cheap old age home and we will be beaten by angry nurses and fed with disgusting cold soup.
One in a month we will be visited for five minutes by our wives or sons and we will ask "what happened to my collection?" and they will keep silence and will ask us if we are OK.


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Fernando wrote:The grave, with a previous station in the old age home and without our toys. It will be probably a cheap old age home and we will be beaten by angry nurses and fed with disgusting cold soup.
One in a month we will be visited for five minutes by our wives or sons and we will ask "what happened to my collection?" and they will keep silence and will ask us if we are OK.


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:x No way!
Never mind the chess computer collection; save an extra bullet for me.

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I can save a bullet for you. I have plenty.
Maybe before using mine I will shoot my full collection to take her out of her misery.
No garage selling of my stuff regards
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I am not worried
I have a "living dedicated chess computer" Will
it gives my executors/administrators explicit power and instructions..NOT to dispose of ANY of my computers should I become mentality incapacitated ..
the computers are to be kept in pristine condition and cared for with funds from my vast estate as long as I am alive...even if I am a vegetable living on life support systems
upon my death.. the executors are instructed to build a mausoleum to entomb my body and my casket it to be carved from the finest wood from my rarest wooden auto-sensory computers
any funds left over (if any) will go to my wife

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Great idea that requires great financial assets. In my case, deprived as I am of any money, perhaps I could ask that to the common grave where my decomposed body will be throwed be added one of my already dead computers, Chess champion with preference.
The rest, if not cut in pieces by my gun, will end his days in a garage sale and will depart at two cents each.

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Steve B wrote:I am not worried
upon my death.. the executors are instructed to build a mausoleum to entomb my body and my casket it to be carved from the finest wood from my rarest wooden auto-sensory computers
any funds left over (if any) will go to my wife

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An Egyptian pharaoh would bring the travel collection and the servants along for the ride. Oh, and don’t forget to entomb that Fidelity technician.

Celestial journey planning regards…

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Perhaps we could convince Steven Blincoe to be embalmed and putted in a glass cage with a computer in the Smithsonian Museum.
There is a British philosopher maintained in that way, Stuart Mill I believe, but without the chess computer. it would be an improvement...

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Fernando wrote:Perhaps we could convince Steven Blincoe to be embalmed and putted in a glass cage with a computer in the Smithsonian Museum.
There is a British philosopher maintained in that way, Stuart Mill I believe, but without the chess computer. it would be an improvement...

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I Like the Embalmed idea
perhaps i strike a pose where i am sitting at my desk with a chess computer in front of me..for all eternity..the chess computer would of course also have to be embalmed
come too think of it..this is not far from reality
i remember the first dedicated computers and how long it took them to move on their highest level
will get back to you on that

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Cyberchess wrote:
Steve B wrote:I am not worried
upon my death.. the executors are instructed to build a mausoleum to entomb my body and my casket it to be carved from the finest wood from my rarest wooden auto-sensory computers
any funds left over (if any) will go to my wife

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An Egyptian pharaoh would bring the travel collection and the servants along for the ride. Oh, and don’t forget to entomb that Fidelity technician.

Celestial journey planning regards…

John
Yes ..perhaps only a mausoleum is selling myself short
in order to fit my collection..
i should be thinking more along the lines of a

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Cyberchess wrote:
Steve B wrote:I am not worried
upon my death.. the executors are instructed to build a mausoleum to entomb my body and my casket it to be carved from the finest wood from my rarest wooden auto-sensory computers
any funds left over (if any) will go to my wife

Estate Planning Regards
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An Egyptian pharaoh would bring the travel collection and the servants along for the ride. Oh, and don’t forget to entomb that Fidelity technician.

Celestial journey planning regards…

John
Funny you mention ancient Egypt and chess. My grandfather was a fairly senior civil servant over here and when he retired (the year I was born) the department gave him a gift of a beautifully hand-carved chess set and board (actually a small table), which is now in my possession. The figures are carved in the form of Egyptian pharoahs and the like. It is without a doubt my favourite set of all time, though I rarely get to play with it.

So, having said that, I guess you probably want to see photos of it or something ... ;)
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Hasimir wrote:
Cyberchess wrote:
Steve B wrote:I am not worried
upon my death.. the executors are instructed to build a mausoleum to entomb my body and my casket it to be carved from the finest wood from my rarest wooden auto-sensory computers
any funds left over (if any) will go to my wife

Estate Planning Regards
Steve
An Egyptian pharaoh would bring the travel collection and the servants along for the ride. Oh, and don’t forget to entomb that Fidelity technician.

Celestial journey planning regards…

John
Funny you mention ancient Egypt and chess. My grandfather was a fairly senior civil servant over here and when he retired (the year I was born) the department gave him a gift of a beautifully hand-carved chess set and board (actually a small table), which is now in my possession. The figures are carved in the form of Egyptian pharoahs and the like. It is without a doubt my favourite set of all time, though I rarely get to play with it.

So, having said that, I guess you probably want to see photos of it or something ... ;)
Senet anyone?

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Great to see Blincoe to agree with the idea of being embalmed.
Now, with second thoughts, I think it is a too much narrow minded idea.
Why just Blincoe?
The full membership of this place should be.
Kind of a wax museum of old chaps with his old computers.
Beatiful scenes of Blincoe, monsieur Plastique, etc playing chess with big cigars in his dead mouths.
I offer myself to be embalmed as the guy that serves the coffee.
I wonder if someone want to play the role of the cashier selling the tickets. Blincoe I suppose....
We need also the champion of the house, some imposing personality of mighty presence. I think I can do that instead of the waiter rol
I accept new ideas.

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Cyberchess wrote:
Hasimir wrote: Funny you mention ancient Egypt and chess. My grandfather was a fairly senior civil servant over here and when he retired (the year I was born) the department gave him a gift of a beautifully hand-carved chess set and board (actually a small table), which is now in my possession. The figures are carved in the form of Egyptian pharoahs and the like. It is without a doubt my favourite set of all time, though I rarely get to play with it.

So, having said that, I guess you probably want to see photos of it or something ... ;)
Senet anyone?

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Wow, I hadn't even been aware of that. It's kind of nifty, especially being so frequently included with burial customs. Anyway, I'll take some photos of Pa's old set later and post them.
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It happens to everybody that the most beautiful boards and pieces cannot be used for actual playing. They distract the attebntion, does not distinguish very well between them, etc.
Always they finish in a table as ornaments or in a closet or drawer or cellar with so many other derelicts and un-useful things...

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Fernando wrote: Beatiful scenes of Blincoe, monsieur Plastique, etc playing chess with big cigars in his dead mouths.


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Can you embalm plastic? If you melt him down maybe he can be used as embalming fluid!?
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