Speaking of chess computers

Tonight at 21:05 GMT, after 18 months of slugging it out, my chess computer became #1 ranked in the world on the Internet Chess Server:

1 2900 tribbles
2 2896 CSMath
3 2856 Foe-hammer
4 2853 Shredder
5 2847 Good-Boy
6 2837 Orcrist
7 2821 workuta
8 2815 Kasparov
9 2813 Swimming
10 2803 ChopSticks
11 2801 Topalov
...
31133 total

Garry Kasparov, although retired last year, is still currently the highest ranked human in the world with a rating of 2815. Humans can no longer compete with the top computers at chess I am sad to say. Veselin Topalov (#11 above) is the second highest ranked human as we speak, the rest in that list are computers. Incidentally, Bobby Fischer got to a peak FIDE rating of 2785 in his career (and wikipedia agrees with this!).

In case you wondered, tribbles would kick Deep Blue's butt were he still playing. Murray - prove me wrong !

No mean feat being #1 in the world at anything - all that overclocking paid off. I'd just like to thank Vaclav Gerard Rajlich, MIT graduate, International Chess Master and author of the phenomenal chess engine called Rybka (Little Fish) for this honour. And AMD also for making some kick butt chips. To my opponents - well - that's the trouble with tribbles :-)

Am I a geek or what? Plus, where do I go from here? :-)

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You asked:

My question: is there a comparable attraction for men? We don't, as a general stereotype, yearn for bad women, do we?

We're probably no different in looking for a bit of excitement, but our fragile male ego's would shy short of something dangerous. For your normal red blooded american male the stereotype would be "Marilyn Monroe/Pamela Anderson". For geeks, the librarian Jodie Foster types :-)

Attraction is still mysterious.

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Congratulations on your first wikipedia entry, I think it's a marvellous read pal, may it be the first of many.