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M. Howe wrote on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 08:43 PM UTC:
I still read TCVP sometimes, though am no longer a member and my interest in CVs is gradually waning. I didn't think I would post again, but felt that a response was appropriate here. This is a reasonably fair characterization of what Nova Chess used to be. I was never really able to get it focused and was never satisfied with it, nor do I support the version that still exists on the ZOG website. These days, my thinking about CVs is that if the world needs CVs at all, and there seems to be precious little interest beyond these small circles, it needs fewer of them, not more. And these CVs should be games with clarity, structure, and balance, worthy of repeated play and study, such as Mats Winther's Mastodon/Mammoth Chess, to give one example out of perhaps a few handfuls of games I still value. And for the record, there was no real falling out with TCVP. I simply grew tired of the increasing quantity and decreasing quality of the material, the loss of focus, the animosity and ego that came to dominate the forum. I have not ruled out coming back as a member and putting a small number of well-considered CVs back up, but I don't see that the tide has turned.

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