Author: Stan Arts
Date: 08:22:27 09/09/04
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Hmmm "wanna be" ... ? I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to be a chess-programmer.. It's not very "cool" , and doesn't make you much of a "babe-magnet". That out of the way. : To start with, I think there already are chessprogrammer-only boards, such as Tim Mann's yahoo-group. With restrictions like you put, even for the members you'd allow in the first place .. you'll quickly kill any such board. Some reasons for that would be, -that I would not want to be a member of such a "elitair" group. I'm not sure you realise this, but writing chessprograms, *from scratch* isn't very special. You have a slightly unrealistic view to believe those "onlookers", which are all somehow newbies apparantly, get terribly "impressed". -Then who are you really going to allow? Many of those "onlookers" are or have attempted to write a chessprogram. (Are you going to judge if their programs and attempts are strong enough to be allowed? What about other areas, write a GUI, or databaseprogram, or an application to draw a nice set of computer- chesspieces, etc, etc.) What to do with a new chessprogrammer? You won't give him any help, because he's not allowed to the board. -A lot of chessprogrammers have stronger/weaker programs then yours, and do not currently work on the same problems as your current "interesting" toppic on the board. Therefore, they might not have something interesting to contribute at that time. I do not post so often on CCC, because I feel I have nothing *interesting* to contribute at that time, or would repeat what is being posted/awnsered. If I were forced to post once in a while, I would be flooding and your precious bandwitch in the first place. And if it's then not interesting enough to your taste you'd even disactivate my account. -Most other "onlookers" are "experts" in other areas. (Strong players, know everything there is to know about some program, etc.) You do not find their posts interesting? I do. Also these do *help* the programmers. And so do the people that do computer vs computer testmatches you seem to hate. Please look at the CCC again, and when you can imagine people thinking different from you and have different interests and expertise, in "computer chess", and you'll see there is little bandwitch "wasted" at all. Greetings, Stan
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