Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:46:49 11/13/97
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On November 13, 1997 at 16:07:30, Chris Whittington wrote: > >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 > we start off with a controversy. :) On my P6/200, Rebel is at least 10% faster than Crafty. (this is rebel 8 of course). I'm not quite sure how to call that "slow"... :) maybe because it doesn't use null-move can qualify it, I don't know. But it is nowhere near the speed of hiarcs, mchess, or your program. >Time control: 60/120 ? good question. ICC only supports sudden death or increment games. Maybe 60 60 might be a good start? 60 minutes + 60 seconds per move added? Is that close enough to 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 ? It was suggested for "our" side that we try Crafty, Ferret and Dark Thought. I'll ask Bruce if he's interested. He also has an "automatic" version of Shredder although I don't know where Shredder would fit in our speed categories... Ernst: do you have a P6/200 and are willing to try or would you rather skip since you have really tailored yourself to the alpha?? The last member of the 4 fast guys could be Fritz if we can get an operator to volunteer. If Ernst doesn't want to try this (wrong architecture) then I'm considering who to ask next... Suggestions?? > >Chris let's finalize teams, and operators, then kick this off. how quickly should we play? one game per week? two? nightly? (or afternoonly to make it easy for you guys in Europe)..
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