Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 08:27:22 08/14/99
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On August 13, 1999 at 17:02:20, Richard Sutherland wrote: >I notice that nothing has been posted to the Computer Chess Reports section in >months. Is this resource now dead? or just resting?. When the Reports was by-subscription for 13 years (first on paper and then on the web), it paid its own way. The money that was generated paid for Enrique Irazoqui & Larry Kaufman to spend a good deal of time testing product, writing reviews, and collecting data from other reliable sources. Unfortunately, we heard many people saying that charging for such information on the web went against the grain, and that "everything" on the web should be for free. Unfortunately, this meant that the funds that we collected to pay for the expense of testing dried up and the Reports could not continue as it once did. It was thought that the creation of the CCC would again resurrect the Reports because we felt that making a home for the CCC and its members would result in articles being written by the members. But as Fernando will attest, that was not the case. Despite many pleas by Fernando, we received almost nothing in the way of computer chess articles. So, for all intents and purposes, the Reports IS dead - a victim of the web philosophy that everything should be free. From our perspective at ICD/Your Move, we substituted the time, energy, and expense of creating and maintaining the Reports to creating and maintaining the CCC. It would be impractical and incredibly time-consuming and expensive to maintain both entities. For me, personally, it is sad because (despite the hard work involved) I really enjoyed working with Enrique and Larry: two of my favorite people in the computer chess world. - Steve (ICD/Your Move)
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