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Subject: Re: Some more CCT2 notes

Author: Alexander Kure

Date: 03:02:22 11/07/00

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On November 07, 2000 at 01:04:04, Will Singleton wrote:

>On November 07, 2000 at 00:48:33, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>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
>
>The cpu's I listed here were preliminary, and probably there were some changes.
>I think Nimzo ran on the faster cpu.


That's correct, Will.
Nimzo ran on a 1001 Mhz overclocked Pentium III.

Greetings
Alex




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