Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 10:29:20 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 11:16:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >I suspect that more people would be watching an online event than one held at >Paderborn. There are thousands of people online at any particular time, and the >news of the tournament has been going on for quite a while. > >Quite frankly, I think the WMCCC events are very obscure, and probably the chess >programmers, this board, the Winboard forum, a couple German boards and >rec.games.chess.computer are the only places that even know about it. > >Online contests, on the other hand, will definitely be followed by thousands of >watchers. I suspect your right about CCT having a larger audience than both WMCCC and Paderborn. But it's still only slightly less obscure. That should make participation attractive IMO. More people watching without fearing that a poor performance will have dire promotional consequences. Especially if you consider results from national championship wins posted by software companies as a major achievement. Championships where there are two strong programs and an audience below ten. >It appears that we can't counter the cheating arguments by providing the logs or >the binaries, and we can't trust each other to be truthful. I guess we are just >a big cringing mass of losers. Yep, you are ;-). A lot of whining, but no action whatsoever. Regards, Mogens
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