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Subject: Re: CMQTest leads CM Rookies Tournament 30 min.

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 12:48:01 06/29/00

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On June 29, 2000 at 14:34:39, Aaron Tay wrote:

>Sure you may run them..But you can't *post* any finished tournaments, unless and
>untill he gave you permission..Which he did ...
>
>LOL!

Yes, apart from the fact that he probably meant mail instead of post, it's
indeed very funny. I should really stop using subtleties and irony, because it
seems incomprehensible to quite a few persons. Nah, I'll try again tomorrow :o).

>Does  he (Castle2000?) run winboard tournaments as well?

He did ask for advice concerning WinBoard, but no results has emerged.

>I find Chessmaster tournaments boring, since you can basically run only variants
>of Chessmasters vers one another..

Yes, when you've seen one Chessmaster tournament, you've seen them all.

>Now..Winboard on the otherhand, when you are trying out "personalities" of Yace
>or Exchess or Gormit2, you get a wide range of different engines to test
>against, not the xth personality of the same core engine..

I agree. You get a lot of different programs for free, which are very different
by nature. A lot of possibilities for tweaking and fiddling as well.

There's also the opportunity to discuss elements of the program with the author.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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