Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:07:33 08/15/99
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On August 15, 1999 at 10:36:07, KarinsDad wrote: >On August 14, 1999 at 12:25:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>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 > >Sorry Fernando, > >I misunderstood your statement "Actually WCCR is a monument to lack of interest >of everybody here.". This implied to me that the lack of interest of the WCCR >iluustrated the overall lack of interest. My mistake. > >KarinsDad :) OK. Nobody is perfect. Besides my poor english live rooms to mistaken readings. It is, then, a shared fault; at least something to share instead of fighting :-) Fernando
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