A funny thing happened the other day. I was down at the local pool hall with some buddies and I sat down at one of those little electronic gaming machines (you know, the ones with like 200 games in them) to pass a couple minutes while I had my beer. Sure enough, they had a simplified version of chess on there (five ranks instead of eight, one of each major piece, etc.).
Now this is the funny part (especiall if you take a look at my rating here). I beat the computer in under two minutes. Thinking I was a lucky punk, I played again......same thing. I would have thought to myself that this was just the worst chess program in the world except that it appears that I am the only person in the two years the machine has been there to beat it.
Ok now, theory time.
A) The machine is calibrated for drunk players and I am the most sober person to ever play it.
B) Every dog has its day, and that day was mine.
C) RHP is the online playing ground for the chess gods, and although I suck here my chess skills are off the hook in the
"real" world.
D) I just play better when I drink.
Personally, I think the truth lies in C, D, or both. 😀
Originally posted by OmnislashE) you were the first guy with some knowledge of chess to play that machine.
A funny thing happened the other day. I was down at the local pool hall with some buddies and I sat down at one of those little electronic gaming machines (you know, the ones with like 200 games in them) to pass a couple minutes while I had my beer. Sure enough, they had a simplified version of chess on there (five ranks instead of eight, one of each major ...[text shortened]...
D) I just play better when I drink.
Personally, I think the truth lies in C, D, or both. 😀
I vote option E 😀
