Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Nice Rotated-bitmaps Article by Hyatt in ICCA

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 14:01:13 02/07/00

Go up one level in this thread


On February 07, 2000 at 12:54:57, Tom Likens wrote:

>My one real complaint has nothing to do with the article though.
>Apparently, the board of ICCA feels that chess is not interesting
>enough to support an academic journal like ICCA so instead starting
>with the next volume the name of the magazine will be changed to
>Internation Computer Games Journal (ICGA).  The new journal will
>focus on all computer games.  Chess will still be covered but
>obviously to a much lesser extent.

There's been quite a bit of non-chess stuff in it over its time.  The name
change merely recognizes the reality of the situation.  I don't expect a huge
change in direction from them, in terms of the material that will be covered.
If it was solely work on chess being published, a name change wouldn't be
appropriate.  You can see for yourself by thumbing through back issues that
material on other traditional games (e.g. checkers, othello) is also there, and
even new games (e.g. Amazon).

>To be honest I'm not sure I'm going to resubscribe (which is
>too bad since I have ALL the old issues).

That would be unfortunate.  I expect it to still be a major reference source for
computer chess articles.

>--Tom

Dave



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.