Saturday, March 12, 2005
Farewell Garry Kasparov. Don't go too far.
Garry Kasparov, the world's top ranked chess player 20 years running, announced his retirement from professional chess after winning the Linares tournament in Spain. I'll let others cover his reasons for retiring and plans for the future, and instead share the role Garry played in the beginnings of my interest in Chess.
This is a photo of two ads I framed together while working at the company formerly known as Claris. The text on the picture of Garry begins, "How do you make a computer blink?" It's an IBM ad about, I believe, the rematch between Kasparov and Deep Blue. I didn't play chess at the time, but followed the results of the match with interest, and perhaps as a result, started playing occasionally with one of my coworkers. I think he beat me every time, but for the first time in my life, I began to get an inkling of real chess stategy and tactics.
That led to my programming of a two-humans-on-one-computer, JavaScript-powered chess program that was the precursor to my online chess playing site Chess Hounds.
The rather un-chess-like ad on the right says "A long time ago, you were told that in the future people would use computers to share information simply and effortlessly," to which I added a post-it explaining that "Now we know that the future of communications is in Post-it notes. Computers are only useful for playing games like chess." That humongous mouth yelling into Garry's ear as he concentrated on the chess board was just to funny an image for me to ignore.
Well, enough of that story. Thank you Garry for enhancing my interest in the game, and best of luck to you in your future pursuits. Don't go too far.
This is a photo of two ads I framed together while working at the company formerly known as Claris. The text on the picture of Garry begins, "How do you make a computer blink?" It's an IBM ad about, I believe, the rematch between Kasparov and Deep Blue. I didn't play chess at the time, but followed the results of the match with interest, and perhaps as a result, started playing occasionally with one of my coworkers. I think he beat me every time, but for the first time in my life, I began to get an inkling of real chess stategy and tactics.That led to my programming of a two-humans-on-one-computer, JavaScript-powered chess program that was the precursor to my online chess playing site Chess Hounds.
The rather un-chess-like ad on the right says "A long time ago, you were told that in the future people would use computers to share information simply and effortlessly," to which I added a post-it explaining that "Now we know that the future of communications is in Post-it notes. Computers are only useful for playing games like chess." That humongous mouth yelling into Garry's ear as he concentrated on the chess board was just to funny an image for me to ignore.
Well, enough of that story. Thank you Garry for enhancing my interest in the game, and best of luck to you in your future pursuits. Don't go too far.
1 Comments:
By , at July 25, 2007 2:31 PM
I have a couple serious questions about your Kasparov ad "how do you make a computer blink".
1. Where did you get it?
2. Do you know how I could go about getting one?
I have a real interest in it and any help would be much appreciated.
you can e-mail me at brianhurney@hotmail.com
