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Subject: Re: Idea: Computer Correspondence Chess Tournament!

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 10:51:12 03/16/01

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On March 16, 2001 at 12:08:44, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>a while ago, a guy called "Komputer Korner" put up a correspondence chess
>tourney of the strongest engines available then. Some of you might remember this
>"Komputer Korner Kup".
>
>Why not do it again? Why not put together Tiger, Fritz, Shredder, CM and Gandalf
>(and more) in there latest incarnations and organize a new tournament!
>
>We could use fixed time controls corresponding to the hardware used, pair
>together 10 or 12 engines, do it round robin or swiss like and this should be
>fun! It will not be done in a week, sure, this tourney might last a year, but so
>what? We could put together a web site with every game being updated once or
>twice a week and this should be very interesting. I'd be willing to organize
>such a thing, if there a enough people interested in this.
>
>What do you think?

Nice idea.  If you organised it then I'd probably want to participate with my
program LambChop.

This sort of tournament requires a big commitment in time, it is most important
that the organiser lasts for the duration of the tournament.  If you are
confident of lasting the distance, then I say go for it!!

cheers,
Peter

>
>Andreas



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