Author: Kim Hvarre
Date: 06:11:18 05/05/98
Oh, those happy days where SSDF was a little club of devoted people, where "a Gunnar" quarterly could reach several hundred "handplayed" test-games , where Pahlén, Göran and all the others served with brilliant articles issue after issue, where the "computerchess-community" primarily consisted of professionals, where self-appointed "mentors" was a not yet known phenomenon, where the list just was The List, where no one argued about letting e.g. Mach IV (68020/20) play against Exel Club (68000/12), where the sole criteria was the ratingdiff. (less than 200), where no one placed the machines to Ply' disposal, where the major part of the members owned several chessmachines themselves, where there was no public forum (sic!) for debating the pro and cons of a "club" the eager ones don't even support (cool cash/membership), where about every ignorant not yet had some-thing to say and tell SSDF, well, those were the days. A well known problem: Give X Y (which he shortly after masters rudimentarily), then X becomes an expert on Y. And all his friends get tired. Challenge: 1) Become Ply member 2) Learn Swedish. Then deal with SSDF, competent from the inside. Do it all and this debate would have been rather redundant. regards, kim
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