Author: Pete Galati
Date: 15:41:07 06/01/01
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On June 01, 2001 at 13:22:33, Steve Maughan wrote: >Since it's coming round to the next World Championships I think it would be a >good idea to discuss / clarify what is required to be in the different >categories. > >In the past there has been Professional and Amateur. In the days of hardware >chess computers it was quite clear who fell in each category but todays it's far >from clear. As an example SOS is the 2000 amateur champion yet was commercially >available at the time as part of the Young Talents CD. > >So what is required to be in each section? How about adding another section - >freeware chess program. This would allow for three titles and would also give >the freeware / winboarders something to aim for. The categories would then look >like this: > >1) Freeware - current EXE available for download. >2) Amateur - Engine cannot be available as a standalone package i.e. Young >Talents is OK >3) Professional - the rest. > >Any comments? > >Also I would like to propose that a new category / competition is created - the >Portable Chess Computer World Championships. This would be restricted to >PocketPCs, Palms etc. > >What do people think? > >Regards, > >Steve Maughan I have no problem with the ideas, but it would make it more difficult organizing the event, and if you have the programs competing in distinct categories, then in my mind it's only logical that they would be playing separate sets of games, mostly against others in their own category. And NOW it starts to sound undesirable. I think there is some acknowledgment of top amateur program anyhow isn't there? And the thing that people sort of take most note of is the overall winner anyhow. I like the ideas, but can they be organized into the event in a manner that MOST will agree on, and since these things tend to take more planning than we like to think they do, you can't really expect this to get accepted by those organizing the event, and put in place in the up coming event. You need to think farther into the future than the next event in my opinion. Pete
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