Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:33:05 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 04:37:35, Uri Blass wrote:
>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
The idea is anyway a little bit impractical. Not bad, just hard to apply in
practice.
Christophe
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