Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 03:47:48 07/12/99
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On July 12, 1999 at 00:02:42, KarinsDad wrote: >On July 11, 1999 at 18:56:30, Andrew Williams wrote: > >>On July 11, 1999 at 13:54:47, Terry Presgrove wrote: >> >>> >>> Nicely done! I particularly like your use of metaphors. I find it hard to >>> see how anyone can expect those who post here to avoid references to chess >>> events and chess in general. How can you seperate chess from computer chess? >>> TP >> >>I don't understand your last comment. Why do we need people announcing >>general chess events here? Surely that is done much better at a site >>like TWIC? I honestly think that this stuff is out of place here. This >>is an excellent forum for computer chess. It will become useless if we >>all start to discuss whether player A is better than player B or how well >>player C is going to do in a tournament. There are many other places for >>this sort of thing on the Internet, but there are hardly any other (civilized) >>places for computer chess. I personally wish people would restrict themselves >>to the topic for which this forum was originally formed. This place not called >>the Computer-Chess Club for nothing! >> >>Regards >> >>Andrew Williams > >That's ok with me. As long as people stop discussing the various merits of >processors and motherboards and other computer components as well. You cannot >drop out the chess half of computer chess without also dropping out the computer >half of computer chess. > >Let me know when you find THE TOPIC for which this forum was originally formed. >:) > >KarinsDad :) I'm not trying to "drop out the chess half" of computer chess. I just think that talking about which human player is going to play in which upcoming tournament is *completely* off-topic in this forum. This forum works very well because the vast majority of threads are about computer chess. I think we should all try to keep it that way. Best regards Andrew
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