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- From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld)
- Subject: Re: Dennis Baker et al
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.054639.14971@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <18734@mindlink.bc.ca> <34469@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Dec21.161453.2240@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:46:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.161453.2240@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel) writes:
- >
- >To all:
- >Anyway, I have a suggestion - why don't we agree to require
- >each post to have an obligatory chess section to each article?
- >For example,
- >
- >obchess: Where does White get comp for the piece after
- > 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Bxf7 Kxf7 5.Qf3+ Kg8
- > 6.Ng5?? Qxg5! ??? Why is this book?
- >
- >or whatever, as long as it has something to do with chess.
- >It doesn't have to be deep, but it does have to relate to
- >chess.
- >
- >I know this idea probably won't take off, as it seems there are
- >too many non-players on r.g.c. who regularly post. Nevertheless,
- >perhaps we can work out something else. I'm sure that most
- >r.g.c. readers agree with me that there needs to be more CHESS
- >on rec.games.CHESS.
- >
- >-Mark
- >
- >p.s. Let me know how you feel about this, and tell me whatever
- > ideas you have to try to get a handle on this problem.
-
- We would have to vote on that if it were to become a rule of r.g.c. - that's
- the way I understand the rules of the net.
-
- But I see a problem with such a rule: suppose a 2400 player posts a piece of
- offensive political propaganda (like the load of [un]intentional Serbian
- propaganda posted recently) and accompanies it with a good piece of chess
- analysis. So if I can't add to or refute his analysis, I am not entitled to
- respond to the first part, either?
-
- Or, in the same way, I could prevent any 1200 player from expressing his views.
-
- Seems problematic to me. I think r.g.c. is good as it is now. Nobody can be
- interested in all the postings. I read less than half. Read what you like,
- kill the rest. If your system is primitive and allows you only to read
- everything sequentially, too bad - but that is the fault of your equipment,
- not of r.g.c. (If you have a bad FM radio that has a very noisy reception of
- stereo programs but no `mono only' option, you don't ask the stations not to
- transmit in stereo, do you?)
-
- Sven
-
-