Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 12:50:34 10/30/97
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On October 30, 1997 at 13:05:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
see very below
>other issues that I've brought up: ....
>1. no information coming out of tournament site. one web site update
The thing with the time bonus has several sides: Before the WMCCC it
was firmly affirmed that each participant without own hardware
would get an AMD-K6-233 MHz for use. And then, two days before the
start of the event, this was downgraded to 200 MHz. The 10 min Boni
were an attempt to balance against this sudden breach of hardware
promises.
I agree that because of the "thinking on the opponents time" (seebelow)
>4. stupid rule giving slower machines 10 extra minutes. Can't someone
>figure out that this doesn't work *if* everyone is thinking on the
>opponent's
>time? If machine equality is desired, make it a rule. Don't fudge things in
>a way that doesn't work.
this solution is not fully fair. But for those, who have to live with
the 200 MHz machines, it is better than nothing.
Next event the hardware sponsor should be informed early enough that
for chess programs 200 MHz instead of 233 really makes a difference.
I think, that the AMD managers simply did not know this.
Ingo Althoefer.
PS: Please, excuse the strange format of this message. But I still
did not find out all details about the CCC News Board editor.
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