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Subject: Re: Heck :all programs withdraw. copy updates unreasonable. his loss (NT)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:59:03 04/20/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 18:44:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 18, 2001 at 18:33:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 18, 2001 at 14:22:26, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Big mistake.
>>>
>>>Draw out the big fish any way you can, and grovel on your knees over barbed wire
>>>and broken glass to get them.
>>>
>>>Give them whatever it takes to make the match happen (but nothing more than
>>>that).
>>>
>>>Mega matches like this are as rare as hen's teeth.  Should we really tell them
>>>to take a hike?
>>>
>>>Unfair?  Sure, but interesting none-the-less.
>>
>>
>>If it were me, I would probably play.  But I would also feel perfectly free
>>to change things between rounds.  Agreement or no agreement.  I also would
>>feel perfectly free to make changes to the program up to the time of the
>>match.
>>
>>The current set of requirements is completely ridiculous...
>>
>>I wouldn't feel compelled to adhere to such nonsense.
>
>I think changing the opening book should be plenty to put things round-about.
>
>Just give an extra wide "play anything" book with the original system, and use a
>debugged smaller book for the contest.
>
>Better yet, filter out all the sensible openings and make the "demo system" play
>1. f3 all the time.
>;-)

No Dan, that's too obvious.

Give a "normal" book which in general has a lot of vague gambits with their
refutations. Then take out the refutations.
The GM will find tens or hundreds of ways to kill the program, keeping him busy
for a while.

Tony
>

>No changes to the program needed, I think.



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