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Subject: Re: E-Mail Chess Site for Computer Programs

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 15:13:11 03/04/00

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On March 03, 2000 at 19:48:45, Thomas wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I develop a web-based email chess site with rated round robin tournaments.
>I intend to create three types of tournaments:
>
>1) for "humans" only
>2) Advanced Chess: man+machine vs. man+machine
>3) Computer Chess: machine vs. machine
>
>The time schedule will be something in the order of one day per move.
>
>Now my questions:
>a) Would you participate in tournaments of type (2)?

	Currently I am too busy, but in the future I might be very interested. So the
answer is yes, but not at this moment.

>b) Would you let *your* (self-written) program play a type 3 tournament?
>c) Should commercial programs be mixed with self-written programs?

	(I do not think I am qualified to answer these two questions, as I am not a
chess programmer).

>d) Do you know of any sites that offer something similar?
>

	Visit IECG homepage:
http://www.iecg.org
Use of computer analysis to choose your moves is legal, so it is your type 2
tournaments (but I suspect many players do not use computers, so they are type 1
entries).
	They have 'quad tournaments' in which computers analysis is NOT allowed (but I
see not way to enforce it, so it is up to the players to honor this rule; I do
not see any good reason to break it, as you can play in any of the other
tournaments), so these quads are your type 1 tournaments.
	Also, there are some computer entries in the rating list. But they did not play
tournaments among them, they played in regular class tournaments against humans.
So they are type 3 entries in type 2 tournaments.

>Any remarks on the idea of such a site would be most welcome!

	I would like human vs computer tournaments. Master Steve Ham is playing two
two-game correspondence matches, against Fritz and agains Nimzo. I do not have
the URL handy.

>Please tell me your expectations of such a site - or tell me if you think the
>whole idea is nonsense.
>

	Your ideas make a lot of sense, but they will require a lot of work from you
and other people to be succesful. Be prepared to make a heavy commitment of time
and effort if you want to carrry on.

>TIA, Thomas
>http://www.very-best.de/
>
>BTW: I am new to this forum - sorry if I ask stupid questions.

	There are no stupid questions: rather there are stupid people who do not ask.
José.



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