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Subject: Re: ICC CCT2 (vote for schedule)

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 08:59:18 09/08/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 21:43:29, Will Singleton wrote:

>
>2nd ICC Computer Chess Tournament
>Dates: Nov 4-5
>
>Please either vote for one of the following schedules (A,B,C,D), or post some
>feedback as to why they will or won't work.  I've pushed back the times a bit,
>in response to input.
>
>Once this is finalized, I will ask sjlim to post the rules and whatever
>conditions ICC wants to impose.  They will be similar (I guess) to the first
>tournament.
>
>Schedule A -- Eight Rounds
>Saturday & Sunday:  30 10 (60 min + (90 moves * 20 sec)) = 1:30 hrs
>EST     GMT
>10:00   15:00
>12:00   17:00
>15:00   20:00
>17:00   22:00
>
>Schedule B -- Eight Rounds
>Saturday & Sunday:  40 10 (80 min + (90 moves * 20 sec)) = 1:50 hrs
>EST     GMT
>10:00   15:00
>12:00   17:00
>15:00   20:00
>17:00   22:00
>
>Schedule C -- Nine Rounds
>Saturday:     30 10 (60 min + (90 moves * 20 sec)) = 1:30 hrs
>EST     GMT
>09:30   14:30
>11:15   16:15
>13:00   18:00
>15:30   20:30
>17:15   22:15
>Sunday:       40 10 (80 min + (90 moves * 20 sec)) = 1:50 hrs
>10:00   15:00
>12:00   17:00
>15:00   20:00
>17:00   22:00
>
>Schedule D -- Nine Rounds
>Saturday:     30 10 (60 min + (90 moves * 20 sec)) = 1:30 hrs
>EST     GMT
>09:30   14:30
>11:15   16:15
>13:00   18:00
>15:30   20:30
>17:15   22:15
>Sunday:       30 10 (60 min + (90 moves * 20 sec)) = 1:30 hrs
>10:00   15:00
>12:00   17:00
>15:00   20:00
>17:00   22:00
>
>
>Current participants:
>
>Amateur         Will Singleton
>Amy             Thorsten Greiner (Stefan Fredriksson operates)
>Arasan          Jon Dart
>Averno          Jose Carlos
>Crafty          Bob Hyatt
>Diep            Vincent Diepeveen
>EXchess         Dan Homan
>Galahad         James Swafford (possible)
>Grok            Peter Kappler
>Hossa           Steffen Jakob (possible)
>Junior          Amir Ban / Shay Bushinsky
>Mint            Christian Söderström
>LambChop        Peter McKenzie
>PostModernist   Andrew Williams
>Shrike          Dan Newman
>Storm           Sean Empey
>Tinker          Brian Richardson
>Terra           Peter Fendrich (possible)


I prefer B.

There's a one hour break in the B schedule, for no good reason IMO. Many games
will end earlier than 90 moves giving the operators plenty of time to take a
break. I would suggest cancelling the break, postponing start time by half an
hour for the sake of the west coast (non) early risers, and using the remaining
half hour to extend games to 45+10. This gives a schedule of:

GMT 1530   1st round
GMT 1740   2nd round
GMT 1950   3rd round
GMT 2200   4th round

Any game ending in say 40 moves would give the operators almost an hour free, so
it's far from hectic.

I propose this as schedule E.

Amir



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