Author: Harald Faber
Date: 04:56:06 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 06:51:20, Kim Hvarre wrote: >>>Elo list next year. There seem to be not enough members anymore. >>Anyone knows the reason for this enormous decrease? The last struggle with >>Fritz5? > >Probably a combination of several things - I quitted my long lasting membership >last year (I think), due to mainly a "major" change of the editorial staff of >the magazine Ply and secondarily to the fact, that it to day perhaps is more >difficult to write about/review the released programs. The differences are >subtle (style, "feeling", etc.), it takes strong(er) chessplayers to reveal them >and then it often becomes a story about e.g. databases, interfaces or other less >(in my opinion) things. Not to mention the huge numbers of new programs/updates >we get, which again sets the conditions for the reviews. >Years ago I proposed that "we" should aim for an international magazine/club >where the natural answer from the former treasurer was, that the active members, >i.e. the testers and writers, did it as a hobby. A limiting fact. >Kim Hvarre Ok, that is s.th. different. Is there a must to write reviews? Aren't the ehemals 400 members testing programs doing it without writing reviews?
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