Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:54:11 03/30/00
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On March 30, 2000 at 02:02:56, Tina Long wrote: >On March 29, 2000 at 22:47:59, Eric Fitch wrote: > >>Have the Computer Chess Reports been discontinued? I notice that the latest >>articles are approaching a year old. > >No, but enthusiasm has certainly waned. > >Komputer Korner left Computer Chess, and other Authors just havn't Authored >lately. > >It is a very sad thing. > >Tina Long Hi Tina: I am one of those authors so I can tell you the history. First, CCC birth made of CCR something obsolete. Why writting there a review if you can -perhaps with somewhat less literary effort- write the same here? Second, not enough people was prepared to write there, for free. Not KK neither me or Larry Kaufman could write absolutely everything. Third, the sheer idea of "reviews" have lost his appeal as much you can get information on a daily for every piece of software. Reviews were fine when internet was not what it is now, so the vehicle of news delivery was limited to paper magazines that, of course, appeared from time to time to collect material. All that has not sense anymore, even in electronic format. Just think on this: what sense could do if I write a "review" of Tiger after all this time, when everybody here has read about this program? If I can do a review of a new program that only I have -as is the case with some program than only I have, he he- well, that's another thing, but eventually softwares houses are not very interested in putting the luick of his products in the hands of an independent reviewer; they prefer to get easy hoopla from paid people in commercial magazines, you know what I mean... Kisses from Chile Fernando
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