Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 22:54:39 11/06/01
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Hi Uri, > I think that the best solution is to have no operators when the game can be > played on ICC. Well, despite the fact that the event would be not nearly as interesting to the programmers (it IS a thrill to sit there and operate your program... :) there would be certain other problems - first of all not all programs can connect to ICC, the whole ChessBase family for example. When you can not see what your opponent is doing because the tourney is played over internet on different continents this gives place for accusations like Vincent made in CCT2 against Amir because he thought that there were human inventions in the game. Also I have heared that there are some rumours that Vincent have used in CCT1 a Kure book for opening and start his engine after that... I don't believe both accusations, but tourneys over ICC give rooms for such things. If you use another protocol, like auto232 there is always room for speculations about your implementation - think about all those topics discussed towards SSDF... So the gameplay on board with manual operating is in my opinion a good thing, shouldn't be changed - as long everybody is fair enough to accept that the engine should win and not the operator (different is the blitz-WM in my opinion a real operator-WM - afaik diep is quite weak in blitz, but with Vincent as operator who can move pieces in a speed beyond my understanding (really cool to watch him when he plays blitz, same about Erdogan Günes when he operates) everything is possible) Greets, Thomas
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