Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 09:38:34 09/24/98
We have been planning for the last 6 months to expand the scope of the CCC to include a Resource Center designed to bring together, in a single place, a wide range of data (past, current, and future) on the topic of computerized chess. Fernando Villegas (ferdinan@cmet.net) has been instrumental in helping to get this concept off the ground, and he has volunteered to be a coordinator in this Herculean effort. To this end, we have drawn up a preliminary list of the various divisions of the Center. We welcome members' input here on the message board as to whether given areas are worthwhile having, and, even more importantly, are there any other areas which should be included? Also, we are going to require some intense member cooperation, input, and research because this field has spanned several decades and the amount of information is huge, widely scattered, and ever increasing. -Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess Games) Input requested on the following CCC Resource Center divisions: 1) The Computer Chess Reports will become free to all CCC members. The last two years' data will be included, and we would like to see review articles on commercially available (or experimental) chess software and stand-alone chess computers submitted by members on a regular basis. As usual, discussions about the articles can go on in the CCC message board. 2) Biographies of CCC members (and photos?) with one or two paragraphs on essential data: programs written (if any), country, occupation, interests, family, etc. This will allow readers to know about the author of posts in CCC. 3) A thorough library of freeware chess programs (and related-to chess programs) available for members to download. This would include programs from amateur programmers who want feedback from knowledgeable computer chess people. 4) A dictionary of "Already Invented Chess Programming Ideas" where programmers of CCC can place definitions and explanations of algorithms, extensions, etc. 5) A section dedicated to interviews with chess programmers and other "interesting" people in the computer chess field. 6) A place for long, detailed, academic or speculative articles that would not normally find a home on the message board. 7) An archive (with permission, of course) of old chess computer related articles (as Jim Phillips and others have been posting about recently). 8) A place for all computer chess test suites (i.e. Nunn, Louget, Nolot, BT2650, homemade suites, etc.) 9) Tournament information: when, where, and full results with game scores 10) Archive of every stand-alone chess computer ever manufactured with manufacturer's name and programmer's name -if possible a photo and description. 11) Archive of CCC members who have written programs and the name of the programs. 12) Archive of every chess program ever written and its name and author. 13) Archive of every chess book concerning computer chess and its author. 14) SSDF results and comments 15) Beginner's Corner in which "newbies" can come and ask questions and share information about all aspects of computer chess
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