Author: jonathon smith
Date: 11:40:39 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 10:09:06, James A. Tackett wrote: >Several times I have read posts that ask a chess question as opposed to a >computer chess question, and subsequently saw people jump all over them because >it was not a "computer chess question." OK, I agree this Board should be for >computer chess, but where does one go to post questions about chess or >tournament play? I have never seen a refernence to a chess or tournament >message board. > >The utility of the CCC board is obvious, and I read it every day like normal >people read the news papers. Yet, I am bothered by the reletivly large number of >posts that read "I just got Monster 666, and boy is it strong! Much stronger >than Demon 999." A reading of the post reveals that a simple match was played >and the person counted the score and is reporting it here. I get the further >impression that these people are not doing this to discover the truth about a >program, but rather they just like watching one program play against another, >like some people watch a tank of tropical fish. The level of chess skill could >be Class D or lower. > ChrisW told me that he is (was) a serious chess player. ChrisW was banned from here two years ago. At the time of this banning ChrisW had not posted here for 5 months. ChrisW told me that he was always very interested in wider fields than bitmaps and hash tables. But this is not allowed as it is off-topic.
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