Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:37:35 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 04:33:53, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 26, 2000 at 04:07:27, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On August 26, 2000 at 02:07:46, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>>I will not be able to devote time to help you, but I would like to see you >>>>organizing the event in Canada as you told us earlier, and I confirm I would >>>>come to this event in person, on my own expenses if needed. >>>> >>>>I hope you can find a sponsor for this and I believe that with a better Internet >>>>coverage the sponsor would not regret spending his money in the event. >>>> >>>> >>>> Christophe >>> >>>Well thanks for your support. This is what I propose: >>> >>>1. Tournament will not be of the uni-platform system. It has been proven in the >>>past, that the biggest hardware doesn't always win, and thus is really a non- >>>substantial factor. Thus I do believe that it will not be used, and that is >>>great as some programs, such as JPConnors doesn't run on a single cpu ??? >> >> >> >>Organizing a uniform platform event has indeed proven to be almost impossible. I >>would personally prefer to enter such an event, but most programmers are >>apparently afraid to play with equal weapons. Some are hiding behind their >>alledged superior architecture (but almost nobody can afford it so it's really >>of little interest), some others know they have more money and are counting on >>this to get an advantage... > >I think that it is better to decide that everybody has the right to use the >hardware of other players except the opponent. > >The only problem with this idea is that it will be impossible to do all the >games of the same round in the same hour but I think that using this idea can do >the tournament more fair. > >Uri I see one problem if both players want to use the same hardware. I think that to prevent the problem you need to decide that black is the first player to choose hardware(not of the opponent) Uri
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