Author: pete
Date: 11:54:45 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 07:41:10, Steve Lim wrote: > Hi all. > > First off, congrats to Stefan for winning the WMCCC 2000! > > ICC was due to have its 2nd CCT in late July following a 6 month (bi-annual) >schedule. However, it was brought to my attention that since the WMCCC was in >august, September might make more sense. (programmers wouldn't want to expose >their tournament books etc). > > Well, September is just around the corner. I'd like to take a general survey >as to the type and dates of CCT #2. > > Something in a previous post by Christophe Theron captured my attention.. > >"The idea of playing each opponent 2 times, once with white and then with black >is indeed very interesting. > >It is easy to do, and does not need more organization effort: it does not >generate more moving computers around. > >Combine this with faster time controls, and you get a much reliable tournament >result." > >I guess feasibility of a double round robin with alternating colors depends on >the # of participants. > > >I'd be very happy to get some feedback on your thoughts, > >Many thanks, >Steve Lim aka SJLIM(*) on ICC. > >Quote of the month.. > >"I always pick Shredder to win because he freaking always wins." - Bruce Only a few little tips : a.) play an uneven number of rounds , else Swiss goes mad ( last time 8 rounds was a bad idea ) b.) Make decent rules about connection problems and/or not showing up ( think of Diep who seemed to suffer 5 discos a game or so or the Junior case where people where sitting there waiting for hours until dust cleared ) . I think 3 or 4 simple rules will be enough while last time noone had any idea as suddenly middle of tourn tournament director vanished too c.) I personally like long time controls but it seems obvious if you want to attract the ICC public the round must not last longer than 2 hours ( People will keep watching a Kasparov - Kramnik game longer but no computer event ) ; I think 10 secs inc are needed if you want to attract any manual , so something like a 30/10 or longest a 45/10 comes to mind . d.) Do some serious advertisement like you do for other ICC events . e.) How about some "trophy" like a crafty(CM) aka computer master ( sounds silly but can't hurt either ) :-) ? f.) With something like 30/10 it could be 2 games a day easily allowing replaying with reversed colours . g.) Although it was a first time event _and_ there were some fights between Dr Hyatt and Mr Ban it was in general very smooth and fair , by all means don't make it a random event with any ICC computer account able to join . h.) get a few more of the big names to show up ; the ICC amateurs will show up anyway ; it was quite close last time in fact but if tried it would for example probably have been possible to have at least Shredder 4 playing .. Ok , that's about all that comes to mind fast from a spectator's point ; it sure will be a great event to watch live anyway ( as live is always something different .. ) pete
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