Author: Serge Desmarais
Date: 22:21:48 09/28/98
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On September 25, 1998 at 11:49:15, Larry S. Tamarkin wrote: >Will you have a section for downloading computer/computer or computer/human >games that have been anotated by readers or transcribed by reader from various >newspapers and magazines. If so you are welcome to my 'Comp' chess games file >that Bert let me post on his Gambit Soft page for a while. Not too much >orriginal work there (but some), but quite a few games (W/anotations), put into >chess base format from magazines like 'Chess', 'BCM', and NY Times articles, USA >Today and so forth. I wonder if other CCC chess fans have also created their >own personal files like this, please let me - perhaps we can swap? > >Lawrence S. Tamarkin >the inkompetent chess software addict! > > Also, the testers in here could add unknown games to the base. And if someone, as myself (being an amateur), has managed to draw games against the top programs (40/2 games and the like), it could be nice to add them to the database of games involving computers. Serge Desmarais > > >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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