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Subject: Re: Short autobiography for Richard A Fowell

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 22:22:29 09/11/99

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On September 11, 1999 at 19:21:09, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:

>
><snip>
>>I am more convinced than ever that each member's name should have
>>a link to a short autobiography (age, country, marital status,
>>computer programming experience, education, employment and a photo).
>>It would be not be mandatory, of course. It is just a shame to have
>>Bob and Ed discussing computer chess with each other (as has been
>>the case for the last couple of days) and having a certain percentage
>>of the audience not know who they are and what they have done in our
>>field. Our problem in getting this done is time. We are incredibly
>>busy getting ready for the holiday season. Today is one of those lull
>>days before the storm.
><snip>
>
>Well, here's the raw material for me, anyway.
>-------------------------------------------------------
>My photo (and an article about FIDE copyright machinations I wrote):
>http://www.smartchess.com/SmartChessOnline/SmartChessOnline/OctNov%201997/fowell.htm
>
>I'm 43, married, and live in the United States (Los Angeles, California).
>My Ph.D is in engineering, and my work is satellite attitude control.
>I have not written any computer chess programs, per se, nor any programs
>for PCs/Macs. I have programmed in C, PL/I, Fortran, BASIC and Forth,
>and was one of the four-man UCLA computer programming team that placed
>second in a national ACM computer programming contest. I played about
>1300 OTB USCF tournament games, and maintained a master rating for the
>last 300 games or so, but have been inactive since 1983.
>
>My main computer chess interest is improving the state of Macintosh
>computer chess by my volunteer support. I beta test, write review
>articles, create and maintain Web sites, and locating resources for Mac
>computer chess programmers. I maintain several Macintosh chess related
>web sites - all can be reached through my Macintosh Chess Software Index:
>http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Chess/Software/Macintosh/
>
>Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Richard,

I'd be happy to give my info, but we have all done this before, in various ways.
 I think it's a fine idea to have easy access to a member's bio, and I support
it.  I'd like to see the thing set up first, though.

Will




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