Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: ICGA and the webcasting of WCCC_2004

Author: Jeffrey Wadsworth

Date: 17:42:50 07/07/04

Go up one level in this thread


On July 07, 2004 at 19:50:24, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>I have 2 simple suggestions:
>
>1) Automate the reporting of the results somewhat, and make sure someone
>who has time is able to update the result webpages, add proper PGN and such.
>
>2) Add some kind of Java applet that shows the in-progress games
>in a platform independent manner. This should be easy to do and possibly
>software for it is already available as many human tournaments function in
>this manner. (This is IMHO preferable over ICC/FICS because those do need
>extra firewall openings whereas Java can work over WWW HTTP)
>
>Basically the organization of the tournament looks excellent, but the
>reporting on the net could use some small improvement.
>
>I realize the people not being able to use playchess are a minority but
>I feel such an event should try to cater to the computer chess enthousiasts
>as much as possible since they quite obviously have the greatest interest in
>it.
>
>And they're also the most vocal bunch ;-)
>
>--
>GCP



The bottom line:  They want you to use the Playchess software...pretty simple.
Updating the tournament news somewhere else does not get that software on your
system, etc.





This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.