Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 11:58:00 05/19/04
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>> >>It is not about playing games. >>It is not about winning prizes. >>It is not about pleasing spectators >> >>It is about meeting the other participants. > >That is the idea behind a "conference". It is possible to do a 2-3 day chess >conference, but play the actual games automatically either in parallel with the >conference or before/after... I do not object against automatic playing on e.g. a (local) ICS. I do object against remote participation. The author should be on-site. If not possible perhaps an operator could do, but that is certainly not preferred. >>It is about fair competition with minimized fraud possibilities. (hitting the >>'move-now' button or changing engine setting mid-game is easy when you can't >>been seen by your opponent) > >It is easy when you _can_ be seen. It has happened many times in the past. > >Oh yes. It would be harder to resign a won or drawn position because you think >that is the "right result" if things are automated. No operator time penalties >for slow vs fast typing. No time funny-business. No forgetting to hit the >chess clock. No move input errors. Etc... Again, no objection against automatic playing. Especially for faster time controls it is probably a must. >>I've participated in the last two CCT-tournaments. I also join in the grand-prix >>cycle on ICC. I think it is a nice way of organizing a tournament. But chat >>online is limited, and channel 64 is (during CCT) usually spammed by nitwits. >>I've also participated in 3 CSVN tournaments, 2 Dutch championships and one >>tournament in Paderborn, all requiring presence of the author/operator. I also >>visited (as a spectator) Maastricht 2002 twice, and Paderborn 2003. I had to >>skip Graz 2003 because of my daughters birthday that was during the tournament. >>If I have to chose between participating in an on-site tournament and an on-line >>tournament I'll choose the on-site tournament if my funds are sufficient. > >That is the point. Suppose you discover it will cost $3000 US to attend. Will >that change things? It does for me... Of course. I just made a calculation that it would cost 700euro's minimum for me (that includes sharing a hotel room, cheap flight which is not very advisable with my posture, contribution by/to the organisation and pocket money to buy meals and drinks). >>There you'll have the possibility of really meet all the heroes of computer >>chess, drink a beer with them and have dinner with them. I don't see that >>happening in an online tournament. > >Looks like you won't see it happening much longer. Last WCCC = 16. This one >has 10 so far. I can compute the slope of the linear function used to >approximate rate of change.... > The move to give 500$ to cover part of the travelling costs is a step in the right direction. Now we need a less controversial location and a shorter tournament to reduce costs further. >> >>Richard.
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