[Lug-nuts] Complexity .....and Chess

IMHO for a variety of reasons, a lot of people left the work force. This caused the labor pool to reach further down the bell shaped curve to find willing participants. Unfortunately, the complexity of the world, which in my opinion is too complex or perhaps overly complex or perhaps more complex than it needs to be, remained the same. As a result, many even moderately complex things are breaking. Like for example chess on Linux. I just spent most of my afternoon installing various chess programs, they don't really work. Some don't work at all. Some sort of work, but have various sort of major features that don't work. Gnome-chess works. But I can beat it easily. I haven't played for a while, and I'm not that good. It says I can install another engine. But it fails to tell me how and if I go out to Google, the features that it documents don't actually exit on the actual app. Actually brutalchess might work too. It has no man page and no menu of any kind. There is no documentation of any kind on the web page, but there is a forum and a mailing lists. You just move and it starts playing. It seems like it makes pretty good moves, but the display is hard for me to see and I can't change it. 10 years ago, this was easy and worked just fine. Granted, enthusiasm for chess has wained somewhat. Sigh. I'm just glad I don't have any brain surgery scheduled in the near future. I doubt if people are going to get smarter or perhaps less careless, overnight. But perhaps the world will simplify a bid. Eventually. That would be a good thing IMHO. -Gary