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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2004 North American CC Championship

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:08:30 11/04/03

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On November 05, 2003 at 00:06:13, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On November 05, 2003 at 00:03:06, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>On November 04, 2003 at 19:24:25, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>On November 04, 2003 at 18:47:02, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>>
>>>>Are you aware of the CCT tournaments that have been played on ICC?  We've had 5
>>>>of these since 2000, with increasingly good turnouts each year.  The last event
>>>>had 45 entries.
>>>
>>>Yes.  But not everyone has an ICC membership.  They are not free.  I want this
>>>to be a free event without any commercial interests upon the part of the
>>>organizer.  The entrants will be playing solely for their own benefit, not for
>>>spectators who've paid an organizer who in turn does not pay the entrants.
>>>
>>>>1) Why limit participation to 24 programs?  I think it's much better to take as
>>>>many entries as possible, even if it means playing a Swiss instead of a
>>>>round-robin.
>>>
>>>A round robin event produces a much clearer picture of the relative playing
>>>strengths of the entrants.  The limit of 24 entrants should be sufficient to
>>>cover all the active authors with a few slots in reserve.
>>
>>Really?  How did you determine this?  Be careful when making assumptions.
>
>From http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
>
>1. USA Free: 36.
>Alex, Amateur, Arasan, Bace, Beaches, Betsy, BigBook, Chad's Chess, ChessRikus,
>Crafty, DChess, DeepTrouble, Dorky, DrunkenMaster, EXchess, Fimbulwinter,
>Gerbil, GnuChess 4.0.x, GnuChess 5.x, Horizon, iChess, Jester, Kace,
>NoonianChess, Plywood, Pooky, Pulsar, ROBOKewlper, Simontacchi, SlowChess,
>SSEChess, Storm, Tristram, TSCP, Usurper and Zotron.
>
>I know of some others besides these.

10. Canada Free: 5.
Faile, King of Kings, Monik, Pierre and Thinker.




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