Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:24:26 08/20/01
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On August 20, 2001 at 17:57:28, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>On August 20, 2001 at 17:39:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On the other hand, it does not seem to have hurt Christophe Theron any.
>>He's active here, and his program kicks butt [and has made rapid advancement
>>over the last couple years].
>
>Somehow I think that's more to do with actual talent. And if I may be as bold as
>to suggest that Christophe have been more active in promoting his program rather
>than sharing ideas IIRC.
You know you are rather new to this forum, Mogens.
In the early days of CCC I have participated in a lot of technical discussions
and shared ideas.
Dig into the archives and you will find a lot of these.
I have stopped somehow because it happened very often that I spend a lot of time
writting a long detailed post on something I'm working on, and I get either no
answer at all (so I must assume total lack of interest for the idea), or the
discussion immediately drifts to something which was no my subject at all.
After one of two years of this, I have found that sharing and discussing ideas
here was a complete waste of time, at least for me. So I focused on discussing
other things...
I'm not exactly willing to spend my time explaining how to write yet another
Crafty clone day after day. There are other people here willing to kill all
creativity by explaining how they do it and how everybody should do it.
And just one word about "promoting my program": I'm pretty sure I'm not doing
any good to my program's image by posting here. I have too many controversial
opinions. I'm not politically correct.
If I wanted to promote my program seriously, the first thing I should do is stop
posting here. Or at least post here only the nice insipid things everybody wants
to hear. In short, do like the other commercial programmers do.
> Nothing wrong with that, since it's his livelihood. But
>most of the programmers starting out wouldn't notice if he stopped posting
>altogether IMHO.
On this I do agree with you. Nobody would notice if I stopped posting. Nobody
cares, and I don't either.
>>So I doubt that the harm is very great, if any.
>
>If he's just an active reader then I would agree. However, I doubt that actual
>participation would be terribly beneficial. It would be naive to assume that his
>policy would differ from Theron's
Are you naive enough to believe that this little group of chess enthusiast is of
any help to seriously promote any computer chess product?
Christophe
> and Chessbase does the advertising quite well
>as it is. The troublemakers would probably also emerge from the woodwork.
>
>Mogens.
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