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Subject: Re: CCL will stop after round-1

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 08:07:14 08/19/98

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On August 19, 1998 at 10:30:33, Ed Schröder wrote:

>I have a sad announcement to make. As the header says CCL after
>round-1 will stop to exist.

>The reason is quite simple, the lack of interest of an organization who
>would be willing to take over a running CCL. There have been offers
>from commercials but I have declined these offers as I feel that CCL
>should be an independent organization by all means.

Yes, but which independent(=private?) organization can afford to have dozens
computers at (one?) home running matches? Especially for learning function it is
important to run on one machine 500 games and not on 100 machines each 5 games
for example.

>A pity as I would have been delighted to test all the new and upcoming
>versions on CCL and report on a weekly base. Unfortunately this is not
>going to happen. With the start of CCL I have given myself 6 months and
>I like to stick to that.

Gimme money for 20 PCs and I'll continue your work.




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