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Subject: YES we need a new forum for that

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:18:47 02/20/06

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On February 19, 2006 at 13:34:01, Roman Hartmann wrote:

Yes and i'll give arguments why.

Right now all kind of postings scroll away real quickly because the CCC forum
software is outdated.

Sometimes i checkout CCC then i'm gone for another few days, or few weeks and
all messages i wanted to read reply from are gone then.

Your own rootserver with unlimited bandwidth, which is a zillion times more than
what CCC needs, has a cost of 50 dollar a month (www.1and1.com) and a 60GB
harddrive, or 75 euro in Europe (www.1und1.de).

In case you co-share you can get this for 25 dollar a month at most. So total
hosting costs from a root server are under 600 dollar a year.

Even less than that if the bandwidth volume is under a GB or 50 a month.

So adding more forums is a real peanut and with this software the CCC still is
interesting for programmers to read in that case.

>Hi all,
>it seems that the the CCC these days is mainly about engine tournaments. While
>this is without any doubt a very imporatant part of computer chess, it also has
>the drawback that the few postings about chess programming are hard to find
>among all the engine tournament postings.
>
>I visit CCC mainly because of the postings about chess programming and don't
>like that the for me interestings posts vanish after a few days already because
>the board gets cluttered by all the 'rybka vs the world' tournaments.
>
>Maybe it's time to make a second forum for all the testers where they can post
>all the games and results.

>What are others thinking about this?
>
>best regards
>Roman
>
>PS: Don't get me wrong, playing tournaments is fun and important but it just
>takes way too much room here imo.



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