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George Duke wrote on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 04:59 PM UTC:
Are many of the following points true? Hard to tell.
(1)Prolificists(15+CVs), when they rate others' CVs do not evaluate, and
when they evaluate do not rate.
(2)Prolificists are almost exclusively from USA and UK (recurrently in
objective, scientific worldwide opinion polls the two 'overseer', or
aggressor, nations)
(3)Prolificists' own game write-ups are longer than average
the more space for interesting annotations.
(4)Despite their engagement in the field, Prolificists have less knowledge of Chess history and CV precedent, for the time they put into it, than
Inventors who claim 1 or 2 CV novelties. (Example: Historical expert John
Ayer has no own Inventions)
(5)Prolificists actually play their own games less than average.
(6)Prolificists' Rules write-ups tend to fall at extreme either very complete or very sketchy. (For ex., RBetza either gets carried away in detail or offhandedly describes in one sentence an alternate)
(7) Prolificists are nowhere welcome except at Chess Variant Page.
(8) Prolificists are especially unwelcome at Xiangqi or Shogi websites, since there is no corresponding obsession of their adherents to toy and tinker their Rules ad infinitum. (Suppose we do it for them)