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Subject: Re: MODIFIED Proposal for CCT7 - Dates/Rules/Time controls.

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 07:45:16 12/12/04

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On December 12, 2004 at 07:06:35, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On December 12, 2004 at 01:07:05, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>Dates:
>February 12&13 2004
>or
>March 12&13 2004
>
>Site:
>The Internet Chess Club (as always)
>
>Rounds:
>9 round swiss.
>
>Time controls:
>
>50 + 3
>
>All games to be played in one weekend. 5 games on day 1, 4 on day two.
>
>In the event of a tie situation:
>
>There will be co-winners awarded.
>
>1. No manually operated programs, and all programs must kibitz their evaluation,
>and book moves/TB hits if possible. Providing as much information as possible
>for the viewers and participants is key here. It should also be noted that 1-3
>lines of text is sufficient. No need to scroll out an entire page :)
>
>2. In the event of a disconnection, the party will be given 5 minutes to return
>to complete the game and no more than 3 disconnections per game will be allowed.
>On the third time, the game will be a forfeit.
>
>3. Only the author or an approved operator (Author must email the TD in such
>case to grant approval). There will be no clones allowed.
>
>4. Participants can use any hardware they can bring. Participants choosing to
>use remotely located hardware are recommended to have a suitable back up
>solution in the event there is an uncorrectable malfunction.
>
>5. No entries will be accepted 2 days prior to the start date of the tournament.
>This is to ensure that advertising, websites, and any promotional tools are
>accurate at start time. This is also to ensure partitipants have enough time to
>test their program on the ICC servers to ensure it is able to play.
>5a. In the event that there is a late withdrawl or uneven amounts of players,
>the TD can substitute a program in place of the departing entrant to keep the
>numbered entries the same. And to avoid a bye round.
>
>Peter

Looks great to me!  I prefer the February date, as March is getting a bit out of
the usual time frame for CCT.

One question that you haven't answered: how do you propose to seed the programs?

anthony



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