Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:25:07 08/14/99
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On August 14, 1999 at 01:25:50, KarinsDad wrote: >On August 13, 1999 at 21:28:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On August 13, 1999 at 17:02:20, Richard Sutherland wrote: >> >>>I notice that nothing has been posted to the Computer Chess Reports section in >>>months. Is this resource now dead? or just resting?. >> >>Hi: >>As ex coordinator and ex promotor and ex writer there, i would say that WCCR is >>in an state of vegetative life waiting the kiss of the fairy. The problem is: >>nobody wanted, want and perhaps will want to perform that rol. Everybody >>expected -well, maybe they did not expect a shit after all- to see there new >>articles from time to time, but nobody was prepared to expend some time writing >>one. I did a lot of interviews, etc, but that is not enough. The same with KK, >>but he retired to real life. Efforts to enage oher people were in vain. Actually >>WCCR is a monument to lack of interest of everybody here. Maybe they are right, >>maybe not. It is for you to decide. >>Fernando > >I don't agree. I think people have a lot of interest here. > >I think people have to decide where to put their efforts. > >Some people put them into their programs. > >Some people put them into tournaments. > >Very few people have the time to write an article. > >I wrote a white paper on compressing a random legal position into 20 bytes. >Unfortunately, I have not been successful on that. Until I am, that white paper >stays put (actually, I have basically convinced myself that it cannot be done, >so I doubt I will ever publish that paper). > >But, there is interest. It's just not in writing articles, but rather in posting >and reading messages (and the associated work on programs, tournaments, >configuration changes, etc.). > >KarinsDad :) It seems my english is getting worst. I thought I had made clear that the lack of interest was related to WCCR survival, NOT to CCC life. fernando
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