Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:49:44 01/14/06
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Anthony: I suppose that if you go from here it is a loss for CCC, but perhaps a win for CTF. I have been here for many years, in fact since the very first days. Many names - and even in a giood degree the people behind the names- are known to me, almost as old friends or sometimes -very few- as old enemies. So I have seen also the changes. Perhaps the ground of all changes in style here has to do with changes in the computer stuff in itself. I dare top say that one big component has gone: surprise, amazement, expectation. It is not the same to have expert level programs and see the coming of master level ones or to have IM level engines and see to come GM stuff. And so and so. Many techniques seems to have became commodities. It seems these days that any programmer with some average skill has now the chance to produce a decently strong chess program, fide master level or beyond. But some other developmenst has happened beyond the sheer chessic matter. In the same degree this place get older, the relationship between us get mature and more humane. We are not anymore anonimous names discussing abstract matter about hash tables, but persons. We have seen each othr in photos or maybe in person, we habve talked a lot, discussed a lot. We are people now, not names. This was kind of a specialized internet magazine: now is a social club that use to discuss chess computers. All that is even stronger in CTF due to his nature as a free-for-all discussion place. I have became addict to it. I get laughs, stuff to think, to look again an issue, to interchange jokes. It is a good place, as this is, one where you can become sometimes botred or hurted, but you come again to see old pals and begin onece more the old chat. My best (BTW, last night played Zappa. Uncredible program. It has a bag full of resources. I believed I had it in my pocket,. but....)
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