Walter Korn and Chess Computers.

[Geoff Chandler]

British Chess Magazine, August 1981. Pages 342-346 a continued article.)

Mr Korn predicts electronic chess boards, online chess tournament and a vast rise in people having home computers.

it finishes with a small editorial add on by Bernard Cafferty expressing a fear that is relevant today.

[John Upham]

Its a pity it did not state "his or her" but the sentiment is reasonable.

[NickFaulks]

Its a pity it did not state "his or her"

No it isn't. At the time of writing it was fully understood that in the English language "his" was an abbreviation for "his or her".

In any case, you have missed the boat. Today, "his or her" will run into trouble from those who insist that they are neither.

[John Upham]

Its a pity it did not state "his or her"

No it isn't. At the time of writing it was fully understood that in the English language "his" was an abbreviation for "his or her".

In any case, you have missed the boat. Today, "his or her" will run into trouble from those who insist that they are neither.

True, I meant to write his, her, non-binary or something else yet to be invented.

[David Sedgwick]

This thread must have at least equalled a record by going off topic on the second post

[John Upham]

This thread must have at least equalled a record by going off topic on the second post

I have seen threads going off topic earlier still.

[Kevin Thurlow]

Quoting my latest book, "A History of Chess in the English Civil Service",

"George Koltanowski reported in the February 1946 issue of Chess that Arthur Fey (of Hazleton, PA) had invented a self-recording chess board, which was demonstrated to Koltanowski the previous October. The idea was that you made the moves normally and a strip of paper emerged from the board containing the moves! "