Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:34:29 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 12:42:59, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 03, 2002 at 12:29:10, Will Singleton wrote: >[snip] >>That we are human doesn't necessarily lead to your conclusion. In business, or >>life in general, one cannot trust blindly. Prudent due diligence requires >>verification. Trust, if you like, but verify. This enhances, and in fact >>enables competition, far from detracting from it. >> >>Verification could be done fairly easily, if people felt that the CCT >>tournaments were actually important. Logs and real-time pv's are a start, but >>other methods could be developed. > >Too bad that nobody thinks it is important. > >The WMCCC has become the WMCCC[Europe] and for many sessions now, very good >programs have not entered because it is too expensive to fly to Europe every >contest. > >With the internet, every different program on earth could participate and make a >fascinating competition that only costs modem connect time, internet bandwidth >or whatever (clearly cheaper than airplane tickets and a hotel). > >People in South America could play. People in Australia and New Zealand could >play. Expense would cease to be an object, so a clever university student on a >shoestring budget could compete on an even keel with someone who was >independently wealthy. > >The audience is potentially enormous. The only obstacle (it seems) is fear of >cheating. And (strangest of all) nobody seems to think it is worthwhile to >remove that obstacle. > >I find it an absurd situation. It is an absurd situation indeed, CCT has the potential to replace the WCCC and it will replace all important tournaments as soon as a solution is found that deals with cheating. It ain't right to be your own tournament director, or? I think we better can start a discussion about solutions then arguing about the current rules. Ed
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