OpenChess

I caught the link to this because it was on their front page.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl ... osstable=1
There are about 7 pages of comments, concerning many issues. One can at least get a sense of how ordinary Joes are thinking about the matter.

I personally liked the Rookie-Junior game: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1649075
[Event "World Computer Chess Championship"]<br> [Site "Tilburg"]<br> [Date "2011.11.22"]<br> [EventDate "?"]<br> [Round "7.1"]<br> [Result "0-1"]<br> [White "Rookie (Computer)"]<br> [Black "Junior (Computer)"]<br> [ECO "B83"]<br> [WhiteElo "?"]<br> [BlackElo "?"]<br> [PlyCount "76"]<br> <br> 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be2 d6<br> 7. O-O Be7 8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. Qd3 O-O 10. Rd1 d5 11. Qg3 Nd7<br> 12. Rb1 a5 13. h3 f5 14. exf5 Rxf5 15. Bh6 Qf8 16. Bg4 Bd6<br> 17. f4 Rf6 18. Bg5 Rg6 19. h4 e5 20. f5 Rf6 21. Bxf6 Nxf6<br> 22. Bh3 Qe7 23. Qe1 e4 24. Ne2 Ba6 25. Nd4 e3 26. Ne6 e2<br> 27. Rd4 Be5 28. Qf2 Ne4 29. Rxe4 dxe4 30. Re1 Qb4 31. Rxe2<br> Bxe2 32. Qxe2 Qxb2 33. Qxe4 Bg3 34. Kf1 Qb5 35. c4 Qb2 36. Qd4<br> Rb8 37. h5 a4 38. Qxb2 Rxb2 0-1

BB+ wrote:I caught the link to this because it was on their front page.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl ... osstable=1
There are about 7 pages of comments, concerning many issues. One can at least get a sense of how ordinary Joes are thinking about the matter.

Amusingly, they are just as misinformed, confused, torn up and split as the "experts" on all the other fora...

jb

piteira8 wrote:The lifetime ban reeks of cowardice. Banning rybka is like banning apple.com products because they assemble different parts into a better whole

Ha! I found that funny since Apple products are about to be banned in Europe after Motorola sued them!