Is this really a computer chess forum

Most of the entries seem to be about some guy named sam sloan or GM susan
polgar.

jeffs wrote:
Most of the entries seem to be about some guy named sam sloan or GM
susan polgar.

Been that way for many many years. There is a lot of off-topic stuff, a
lot of cross posting from the chess politics etc. groups and so on.
Even some people who do have posts that are somewhat computer chess
related tend to cross-post enough to show they don't understand newsgroups.

That's what 99% of the people who care about computer chess have left
and prefer more moderated environments.

Many of the 'old timers' flatly refuse to come back to even lurk. Too
many years of personal attacks, too much spam, too much sam sloan, etc.

Too many newbies who just don't understand the culture of newsgroups.

Why_am_I_Here wrote:
jeffs wrote:
Most of the entries seem to be about some guy named sam sloan or GM
susan polgar.

Been that way for many many years. There is a lot of off-topic stuff, a
lot of cross posting from the chess politics etc. groups and so on. Even
some people who do have posts that are somewhat computer chess related
tend to cross-post enough to show they don't understand newsgroups.

That's what 99% of the people who care about computer chess have left
and prefer more moderated environments.

Sadly true. Usenet is slowly dying - not just this group.
Many ISPs have dropped their news server feed altogether.

Many of the 'old timers' flatly refuse to come back to even lurk. Too
many years of personal attacks, too much spam, too much sam sloan, etc.

You can get rid of most of it with suitable kill file entries but it
doesn't leave much on topic traffic.

Too many newbies who just don't understand the culture of newsgroups.

But too few of them to sustain interesting discussions

Regards,
Martin Brown

* (17:15) schrieb:

You can get rid of most of it with suitable kill file entries but it
doesn't leave much on topic traffic.

When I just entered the group there were 5 on-topic articles and 5
easy to kill sam-sloanish ones. Plus this meta-thread.

mfg, simon .... l

On Jul 1, 7:56*am, Why_am_I_Here wrote:
jeffs wrote:
*Most of the entries seem to be about some guy named sam sloan or GM
susan polgar.

Been that way for many many years. *There is a lot of off-topic stuff, a
lot of cross posting from the chess politics etc. groups and so on.
Even some people who do have posts that are somewhat computer chess
related tend to cross-post enough to show they don't understand newsgroups.

That's what 99% of the people who care about computer chess have left
and prefer more moderated environments.

Can you give some links to those?

tonysin wrote:
On Jul 1, 7:56 am, Why_am_I_Here wrote:
jeffs wrote:
Most of the entries seem to be about some guy named sam sloan or GM
susan polgar.
Been that way for many many years. There is a lot of off-topic stuff, a
lot of cross posting from the chess politics etc. groups and so on.
Even some people who do have posts that are somewhat computer chess
related tend to cross-post enough to show they don't understand newsgroups.

That's what 99% of the people who care about computer chess have left
and prefer more moderated environments.

Can you give some links to those?

There are lots of forums, actually.

Some are in other languages, of course. And about every major program
has its own forum. And there are lots of other scattered forums. Just
google for them.


The top general purpose computer chess forum is probably the Computer
Chess Club at TalkChess.com

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewf..._view=flat&f=7

with old archives at:

http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/

(There are years & years of incredibly interesting posts in the
archives. They can be lots of fun to search through. Just like
searching through the old rgcc archives are.)


The Winboard programmer's forum also used to see quite a bit of
activity, but I think most of those eventually moved to the forum above.
This is where a lot of the 'magic' bitboard stuff was done.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/vi...hp?f=4&start=0


(Incidentally, both forums have other, non-programming computer chess
forums. General discussion, tournaments, winboard itself, etc. I just
pointed you to the programming sub-forum itself.)


As I said, there are lots of computer chess forums. Just google for
them and pick one you like. But the TalkChess / Computer Chess Club one
is, in my opinion, one of the better ones, and certainly one of the
bigger ones.

If the 70's computer chess scene had a discussion medium as active as
the CCC forum is, by 79 computer chess would have been at 2500. (grin)

"Simon Krahnke" wrote in message
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When I just entered the group there were 5 on-topic articles and 5
easy to kill sam-sloanish ones. Plus this meta-thread.

mfg, simon .... l

Always on the move . . .



Thanks for the update,

mk5000


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