Author: Brian Richardson
Date: 17:59:23 05/06/00
Go up one level in this thread
My first choice would be standard time games, but shorter than 75 10. Second choice would be blitz. I would not favor overnight games at any time control. Tinker's first tournament was the ICC Winter one during late Jan/early Feb. There was a definite need to manually monitor each game. More often than not, if Tinker did not have any problems, then its opponent did. Even with no "problems", changes (hopefully improvements in eval or time usage) were easier to spot while watching actual play (vs logs). Many many bugs have been fixed since then, and Tinker now plays hundreds of games for days at a time on ICC. However, I am sure there are several other even newer (and still relatively unstable) programs that would be attracted to a tournament (especially if the roster is broad enough that there are a reasonable number of "non-heavy weight" programs). I also personally enjoy watching the games. Accordingly, I would like to see something close to a repeat of the Winter tournament (although 2 games per opponent as both black and white sounds like a good idea, even if it means somewhat shorter time controls).
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.