Author: Tony Werten
Date: 01:58:54 08/04/01
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On August 04, 2001 at 03:26:07, Johan Havegheer wrote: >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. I do. I count at least 6. (I'll leave the wich one question for homework) >No King, Arthur , Kallisto ???? None of them were present last year either. Tony > >Johan
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