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Subject: Re: Why is Chessmaster so popular in CCC?

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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