Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:48:33 11/06/00
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On November 06, 2000 at 20:02:29, Will Singleton wrote: >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 When I typed fi nimzoX I found that nimzo use PIII/1001 so I am surprised that it used only p3/550. I said that it is surprising that shredder4 can win nimzo8 inspite of worse hardware because of the pII/1001 note. If the p3/550 is the correct note then the fact that shredder4 had better result than Nimzo8 is not a clear surprise because I expected nimzo8 to be only sligtly better than shredder4 and the hardware difference of 800Mhz against 550 may compensate for it. Uri
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