Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:26:23 07/05/00
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On July 05, 2000 at 15:20:54, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >Hi, > >>It is really not as popular here as it seems. Most of the posts you see are >>made by a small group of two or three people who enjoy creating new CM >>"personalities" by tweaking a few engine parameters. They post the results from >>matches between different personalities, but most of the results are based on a >>very small number of games, and lack real statistical significance. >> >>I haven't seen much participation in these threads outside of those people. > >You know, I've never really understood why these messages were allowed on the >CCC. From what I can see, there are 4 or 5 interested people, and NOBODY else >ever comments on it. Personally I couldn't care less about the 20 rating points >they manage to squeeze out of the personalities (if in fact they aren't just >perfecting it for play against CM and making it actually weaker overall) and the >gobs of games they use to justify which of their "creations" is better. I'm >sure that a lot of other people feel the same way. > >Why aren't these discussions moved to another forum, or maybe e-mail? If it's >only a few people posting/reading them, I don't see why the people involved >don't just e-mail each other.. They don't interest me either, but I think they do interest a significant number of people. It's certainly more topical than a lot of the other junk we have seen in the last week or so. I just ignore those threads, for the most part.
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