Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 11:01:43 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 13:34:29, Ed Schröder wrote: >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. This a crazy idea and expensive, but way much cheaper than the current WCCC's. Get the programs together at certain locations with a local TD. For instance, In Europe there could be 3-4 locations, say England, Netherlands, Germany, Italy. Two locations in North America, West and Midwest (for my convinience :-), it could be East) One location in Oceania/or Asia or maybe two and one location in Southamerica. So, you still have to pay a ticket and hotel but it will be greatly reduced. With more participants more locations could be allocated. I cases where there are only one participant in a whole continent, it should be possible to find a prestigious TD to witness. Say, an International Arbiter, a titled player, a computer science professor, somebody. Another idea that could be combined or used independently. Everything could be recorded and taped to deal with problems in case of dispute. Cams and tapes nowadays are cheap and they can be borrowed. That is cheaper than flying. The tape will work as the "scoresheet" in regular chess. Webcams could be used but they are not reliable and i guess that they take cpu time. Regards, Miguel > >Ed
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