Author: KarinsDad
Date: 07:36:07 08/15/99
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On August 14, 1999 at 12:25:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On August 14, 1999 at 01:25:50, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On August 13, 1999 at 21:28:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>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?. >>> >>>Hi: >>>As ex coordinator and ex promotor and ex writer there, i would say that WCCR is >>>in an state of vegetative life waiting the kiss of the fairy. The problem is: >>>nobody wanted, want and perhaps will want to perform that rol. Everybody >>>expected -well, maybe they did not expect a shit after all- to see there new >>>articles from time to time, but nobody was prepared to expend some time writing >>>one. I did a lot of interviews, etc, but that is not enough. The same with KK, >>>but he retired to real life. Efforts to enage oher people were in vain. Actually >>>WCCR is a monument to lack of interest of everybody here. Maybe they are right, >>>maybe not. It is for you to decide. >>>Fernando >> >>I don't agree. I think people have a lot of interest here. >> >>I think people have to decide where to put their efforts. >> >>Some people put them into their programs. >> >>Some people put them into tournaments. >> >>Very few people have the time to write an article. >> >>I wrote a white paper on compressing a random legal position into 20 bytes. >>Unfortunately, I have not been successful on that. Until I am, that white paper >>stays put (actually, I have basically convinced myself that it cannot be done, >>so I doubt I will ever publish that paper). >> >>But, there is interest. It's just not in writing articles, but rather in posting >>and reading messages (and the associated work on programs, tournaments, >>configuration changes, etc.). >> >>KarinsDad :) > >It seems my english is getting worst. I thought I had made clear that the lack >of interest was related to WCCR survival, NOT to CCC life. >fernando Sorry Fernando, I misunderstood your statement "Actually WCCR is a monument to lack of interest of everybody here.". This implied to me that the lack of interest of the WCCR iluustrated the overall lack of interest. My mistake. KarinsDad :)
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