Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 22:44:49 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 23:26:26, Dann Corbit wrote:
>Have the chess contests first run by country:
>{country contestants meet first}
>
>Top two from each country go to continent contest:
>European
>North American
>South American
>African {Are there any programs from this continent?}
>Asian {Include Russia and the middle east, or maybe put Russia into Europe?}
>Austrailan {And New Zealand}
>
>Continent winner goes to world contest
>
>I think it might be nice because geographic demarcations tend to spur interest.
>Since the contests would initially be local, travel would not be as difficult.
>
>If travel were impossible/highly impractical, it might be possible to have games
>played via the internet, as supervised by some university staff when the games
>are performed.
>
>Since there would only be 6 continental winners (where the travel is very
>expensive and it would not be sensible to play over the internet) perhaps they
>could have their plane tickets paid for by a sponsoring organization.
>
>With only 6 engines in the finals, it would not take an absurd amount of time to
>complete it.
Regarding engines from Africa, I have written a chess engine (Blikskottel). At
minimum, it has an Afrikaans name :) However, I recently moved to the UK from
South Africa (which disqualifies me I guess), but I am in touch with a handful
of other South Africans who have plans to write chess engines of there own.
Other than that, I haven't heard of anything.
I would not expect the highest of performance standards for the next year or
two, as everyone I know is really beginning... but we'll get there in the end.
Cheers
Adam
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