New Charter

[mclane]

Dear Talkchess,

As a Gen-Z Discord invader, I have neither the necessary attention span, nor the required reading comprehension skills to parse and understand the new charter. So, can anyone explain to me what had changed with this new update, preferably using Fortnite terms?

Thank you

Don't behave to others like in Fortnite Battle Royale.
Be nice and helpful to the other players.
A forum is not a first-person shooter game.

Exactly

[mclane]

The term "flagrant exhortation" has always been interpreted that it is OK for authors of commercial engines, or authors of chess books to announce their work, including updates. But not allow them to announce the same work over and over again, in new threads or for keeping an existing thread at the top of the overview page. They can react to questions about their product from other members.

How good that Ed and Chris were in the commercial area of computerchess long time ago.
They know how commercial computerchess was doing and they also knew how difficult it was to have a new product and sell it.
IMO we are a very small community. And today only a few of the programmers really sell their engines to a company or make a commercial product out of it.
But in the old days most of the programmers did this.
I am very happy that computerchess is not yet dead and that until today new products come out .
There are still dedicated chess computers beeing sold.
There are still engines sold as software products.

Chess itself is still something that has a big value in our society.