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Subject: Re: New - CCC Resource Center - Input Requested

Author: Les Walker

Date: 15:19:55 09/24/98

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MOST EXCELLENT!!!!!

This is a wonderful, albeit ambitious, project. I am not talented in the way of
programming, but I am available if I can help in other capacities. I am
available for keyboarding, finding URLS, data entry, organizing data, etc. etc.
Please call on me if I can help.

Very exciting!

Kind Regards,

Les W.









On September 24, 1998 at 12:38:34, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>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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