Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 13:07:30 11/13/97
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On November 13, 1997 at 15:40:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 13, 1997 at 13:50:11, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>Great idea. Lets do it. A sort of team event ? >>OK, go for it. How to organise ? > >I propose this as a "friendly" competition. I'd love to see 8 programs >with ICC interfaces running on 'auto-pilot' but that likely won't >happen. >The advantage to using an auto interface is time. In a long match >game, >operator time doesn't matter much, but with an auto interface, you don't >even need an operator to play the game. So there is no need to have >some- >one sit in front of a terminal for several hours. > >I'd suggest a chess server. We might even get one to offer some small >prize for the winning team, or whatever. At least we can get one hell >of a big audience and have fun doing this... > >I like 8 programs as probably workable. And 8 rounds so color is no >issue (only slow vs fast games, no slow vs slow, and no fast vs fast) >and then we can jointly TD the thing since there are no pairing hassles >to worry with. > >We can do 4 games simultaneously, or simply say "here is your opponent >for >this week, schedule two games with him at the right T/C, on one of the >chess >servers, and go." > >4 at once would be more fun, with a chat channel for comments. We could >probably get at least one GM to join in from time to time and comment on >the games. We can probably get several IM's to do this also... > > Ok, brilliant. Summarising: p6 200's fast-slow, no fast-fast no slow-slow 4 per team Fast: up to you Slow: CSTal, Mchess, Rebel, Hiarcs would be my choices Time control: 60/120 ? Site: ICC ? Try and play all simultaneously if possible, certainly announce the times for audience participation Autoplaying interface for ICC ? I don't have one yet :( Who's operating ? Chris
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