Author: Will Singleton
Date: 17:02:29 11/06/00
I want to thank Steve Lim for his good work at the ICC CCT2. He kept things running smoothly, responded well to questions, kept track of the games, posted the pairings and results, and kept a good sense of humor. Apparently he lives in Singapore (I had thought Canada), so he was up until 5-6am both days. One funny deal occurred as round 4 was getting ready to go, Steve had been quiet for awhile. As the start time came and went, no announcement. Soon folks were getting testy, like when is this thing going to start? We didn't know that Steve was done for the day, having fallen asleep at the keyboard. Thankfully, his ace accomplice, jbob, picked things up and we were soon playing again. jbob seems to be a former admin there, I guess he left before my time. He did a good job as well. Steve wants to put together a recap of the events of the tourney, and has asked for some info from the participants. I believe he wanted to know at which move each player was out of book in each game. We can all save him some work by providing that info to him. (sjlim@chessclub.com) I don't recall if he wanted other info or not. I want also to thank everyone for showing up, and for being (mostly, ahem) on time. Not bad for a worldwide event. We had one fellow miss a round, and James Swafford ran a copy of gnuchess to fill that out. There was a good group of people on ch 64, hardly any crosstalk at all. For the final two rounds there were quite a few people there, I think about 100. One suggestion I have for the person who organizes the next tourney (maybe in the Spring?) would be to enlist the help of an IM/GM to watch the games, and make comments from time to time on interesting developments. This would do two things: provide more interest for spectators, and keep the players apprised of what's happening. I found that I could hardly watch more than one or two other games, seeing as how I was concentrated on willing my prog not to make bad moves. I would have enlisted or hired someone for this tourney, if I had thought of it. I think the time format and schedule worked out well this time. For CCT1, we had two weekends with longer games, and were weren't quite so tight on the time zone deal. I think doing eight games over two days works. We actually had dead time between all rounds, so I think we could really do nine games with no trouble at all. So, person-who-organizes-the-next-tourney, keep that in mind. For the record: Program ICC_Account Hardware operator_email Amateur 1.1 Amateur Mac G3/500 smocfi@aol.com Arasan ArasanX Athlon/750 jdart@best.com Averno AvernoX AMD/800 Rdavis101@aol.com Crafty Crafty Xeon x4/550 hyatt@cis.uab.edu Diep Diepx some quad diep@xs4all.nl Dorky Dorky Celeron/450 mmmckn0@uky.edu Hossa Hossa Athlon/600 steffen@jakob.at Insomniac InsomniacX P3/933 roberj03@student.ucr.edu Junior JuniorX Dual P3/700 shay@chessdev.com LambChop LambChop Athlon/950 fastxslonnie@earthlink.net Mint Mint P3/600 christian.soderstrom@chello.se Nimzo 8 NimzoX P3/550 panthee@teleweb.at Shredder ShredderX P3/800 netsurfer@epsilon.telenordia.se Shrike ShrikeX P3/980 dnewman@bellatlantic.net Sjeng 7.4 Sjeng AMD/400 GianCarlo.Pascutto@advalvas.be Storm StormX Xeon x4/700 empeys@beutlerhvac.com Terra TerraX P2/300 peter@fendrich.net Tinker Tinker P3/733 brian.richardson@metagroup.com Yace 0.23.08 Yace Celeron/400 nexus1@home.com ZChess 2.2 ZChessX Athlon/800 fzibi@yahoo.com
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