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Subject: Re: CCT Blitz? Some suggestions....

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:22:44 02/15/05

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On February 14, 2005 at 23:22:32, Peter Skinner wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>During the event it was asked if I would have a "blitz" version of the CCT
>event.
>
>Anthony Cozzie also brought this up in the following thread:
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?411561
>
>People proposed the following choices:
>
>1. 9 round DDR (Double Round Robin)10 0 tournament
>2. 12 round DDR 5 3 tournament
>3. 9 round swiss 25 0, 3 qualification tournaments, 10 programs in the finals.
>

All these options suggest a restricted number of entrants. I think the best
thing about CCT is the large number of programs involved. Why not have one huge,
9-round swiss blitz tournament, run by one of the bots? This would be great fun
I think.

>Would anyone be interested in such a thing? It would be easy to do one of these
>in a single day and would be very interesting.
>

I would. I would strongly prefer a one-day event.


Andrew



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