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Subject: Re: Paris Some Afterthoughts on the Blitz Tournament

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 09:37:32 11/04/97

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On November 04, 1997 at 10:21:47, Andreas Mader wrote:

>I think blitz tournaments should only be played via "autoplayer". What
>you have now is a "team competition": Both members of the team (the
>program and the operator) have to be very fast to have a chance to win.


Autoplayer would be fairer; but then how does the time control work ? No
more wooden clocks ......... need to rely on the program clocks instead,
scope for creative time keeping.


>
>Another advantage: If you use an autoplayer cable you do have to move
>the whole hardware to another place after every second round.

This I don't understand. Why should having a cable (remember its a short
and specially dongled cable) remove the need to move computers around ?

Chris

>
>Best wishes
>Andreas



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