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Subject: Re: Future poll ideas

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 07:10:48 04/17/98

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On April 17, 1998 at 03:58:02, Howard Exner wrote:

>Ask the CCC readers to rate these as how they use chess programs.
>
>A. Play standard length games
>B. Play blitz games
>c. Play over games while in analysis mode (ie: analysis of games)
>d. Collect and organize games into databases
>e. Run test suites/interesting positions
>f. Run comp vs comp games
>g. Run programs on servers.
>h. Self instruction/improvement
>
>An example of a ranking could be often,seldom,never or a number weight
>from 0-5. This list is just an example and would require some fine
>tuning.


Good idea. Today what we have is a lot of specs about how we use chess
software and so programmers  walks blindly in his designing work. My
guess is that an overdosis of database has been provided on the
supposition that most of us are real pros that are trying to improve his
game instead ob being -well, at leat it is my case- poeple trying to get
fun and so inclined to what other calls, despectively, "frills". I have
never in my life taken a look to the databases of rebel or CM5000 or
whatever. How many more? A poll like your could be useful to answer that
point.
Fernando



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