Author: KarinsDad
Date: 09:38:20 07/12/99
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On July 12, 1999 at 11:46:23, blass uri wrote: > >On July 12, 1999 at 11:01:18, Terry Presgrove wrote: > >>On July 12, 1999 at 04:01:34, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>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 would think the computer component is key. That is, the merits of various >>>cpu's and other computer related items are more relevant to computer-chess than >>>what Karpov and Kasparov are doing. Correct? Human tourneys and discussions of >>>same have zero to do with our topic, while computers have everything to do with >>>it. >>> >>>Will >> >> I think this perspective puts CCC platform into a very small box indeed. >> It makes this club solely a technical discussion on bit boards, null moves, >> cpu's and whether or not Chessmaster or Hiarcs is #1. > >This is not so narrow. > >There are more subjects that you can discuss here about computer-chess. >For example:analyzing games of computers. >posting games of computers against humans and against computers. > >Uri But the problem with drawing lines is that you have to determine where to do it. Is it talking about computer chess when you discuss two people playing chess over the Internet and using computers to do it? It's obviously not OTB chess. The line starts becoming blurry. KarinsDad :)
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