Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 08:55:18 04/22/01
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> >Nonsense. Had I been invited I would not have attended. My response would have >said: > >"thank you very much for considering me. But in 1977 a group of us formed >an organization with the responsibility of handling computer chess competitions >as its main charter point. At present, the current world computer chess >champion and the current world microcomputer chess champion, titles awarded by >the ICCA after a significant tournament competition, are both held by the >program named 'shredder'. As a result, out of my respect for the organization >I helped form back then, I believe that Shredder is the only entrant that should >be considered. If you prefer to wait for the next WCCC or WMCCC event (probably >the WCCC since the WMCCC does not allow multiple-cpu machines) then that would >also be a perfectly reasonable method to choose the challenger. But in any >case, the ICCA is _the_ organization that should be relied on to handle the >selection process, just like FIDE or PCA does this for the human players. > >Bob Hyatt" > >If that sounds "pompous" then you are reading it wrong and you don't know me >very well. There have been other such cases that I thought were wrongly >handled. IE Cray Blitz was the 1983 and 1986 WCCC champion, yet it was not >chosen to participate in the annual Fredkin events except for two cases. The >selection process was "outside" the ICCA. And it was wrong, IMHO. I don't see >how two wrongs will make this "right". And this time it isn't my turn. It is >SMK's... I admire people with strong convictions who are able to see things in an entirely unselfish way. In the same situation I would certainly be too weak and greedy a human sinner to step back, if ever given such a chance in life. Talking about ICCA tournaments, I wonder when the next WMCCC will be held and who is going to finance it? David Levy's MCO company seems to have gone the way of all internet companies by now. Maybe one should advise the ICCA to somehow get a tough foot into the door of that Braingames stuff to raise some cash for the WCCC's.
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