Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:51:10 09/14/01
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On September 14, 2001 at 11:27:52, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >Bob, who is "we" the moderators ? I think if you polled the members you would >find maybe more than 50 % are interested in the activity, albeit speculation of >one of the historical great chess players, and in our life time. > Sure they are interested. But CCC was formed with a specific set of guidelines firmly in mind. And one of them was that this is for discussion of computer chess topics only. The general chess forum is the right place for Fischer discussions. >Why can't this be a chess site ? Fischer is about chess. Oh I know he is not >about fail highs, fail lows, Alpha beta prunning, killer searches, extensions >etc. Because this isn't a "chess site". It is a "computer chess site". This was why it was formed, this was one of the original guidelines used when setting it up. And this has been the desire of the membership since it was created. Someone always wants to start a Fischer thread. There is no problem with doing so, but just do it on the GCF and not here... > >The endless ever ongoing discussions about the unfairnes of the Deep Fritz match >I think should have been of concern to you and your moderator panel members. How >about the barbs that go on and on and on, each and every thread further fueling >more threads. And then there is the four letter word language that finds it's >way in here ? I complained about that! There was and is not consistency in >admonishment of these topics. Some are warned, others are not. Those threads _were_ about "computer chess". Which means they are fair game. We have deleted things that got too personal, or too inflammatory. But only rarely. But "Computer Chess Club" sort of says it all... > >My displeasure with Bruce goes no deeper with me than his posting regarding >Fischer. I enjoy his posting about his program and all other post of his. He and >Christophe are but a few posters that I scan and read posts without even looking >at the topic as I know it is going to be of interest to me. Both of these >programmers have given at length description about their program, its history >and their mind set on the development of their programs. These posts were very >very interesting and appreciated. > >Respect my point of view, it is just mine but do not continue this >discouragement of the Fischer thing. You might ask the moderator nominees what their stand is on off-topic posts like Fischer. I would hope they would say "no". As I said, I don't mind the discussions about him, but they don't belong in CCC as it has _nothing_ to do with computer chess issues. > >Wayne
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