Author: Johan Havegheer
Date: 00:26:07 08/04/01
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On August 03, 2001 at 17:38:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 03, 2001 at 13:25:10, Frank Schneider wrote: > >>On August 03, 2001 at 13:17:10, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On August 03, 2001 at 12:54:06, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On August 03, 2001 at 11:24:56, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>>> >>>>>The original situation was terrible. I can find fault with the original >>>>>compromise decision, but it was made under pressure and didn't cause a lot of >>>>>damage, so I think it's okay. >>>>> >>>>>Some of the other stuff would have been bad. Multiple entrants per team would >>>>>have been bad. Imagine the kind of stuff that would been said in here if round >>>>>one is Fritz versus Fritz, Junior versus Junior, and Shredder versus Shredder, >>>>>and in order to win you have to play Junior twice and Shredder twice and Fritz >>>>>twice. >>>>> >>>>>bruce >>>> >>>>Multiple entrants per team make sense only if there are 2 tournaments when >>>>microcomputer should be allowed to play in both competition only if the team of >>>>the micro does not have a multi version. >>>> >>>>In this case Fritz versus Fritz cannot happen because the 2 Fritz's are going to >>>>play in different torunaments. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>If I understand properly, there aren't two tournaments. There is one tournament >>>with two titles, so there is one Fritz. >> >>What about amateur-titles? Will there also be two of them? >> >>Frank >> >>> >>>The only question now is whether anyone will show up with a multi-processor >>>machine, since the single-processor title is more desirable. >>> >>>bruce > >I assume not. > >Would make sense. Ed didn't complain about amateur title and amateurs >who do not pay $1000 entry fee for 2 programs (tiger + rebel) have less >to say, as historically has been proven. > >Anyway it's good that David made this deal. Keeping the participants >inside the tournament, especially if it's Rebel + Tiger, that's always >better as getting them outside. > >Nevertheless i doubt the argumentation from Ed that he was making his >DOS program parallel. > >Now what we miss in this tournament is publicity. Only 15 participants >or something like that. I of course added junior to that already, >as those are always late to sign in and there wasn't a clear statement >yet they are not going to join AFAIK. > >No dude in Netherlands knows there is a world champs computerchess >in august in Maastricht. It wasn't even announced in the 2 monthly >chess magazine. Would be amazed if there is a report in it about it >anyway. The other problem is that the CSVN (Dutch computer chess association) hasn't released their june number yet. They have problems finding a new chief editor for their magazine 'COMPUTERSCHAAK'. I don't see many dutch programs on the list. No King, Arthur , Kallisto ???? Johan
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