Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:05:47 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 19:38:42, Ed Schröder wrote: [snip] >Now if such a system is available it is a goodbye to long traveling, hotels, >dragging heavy PC's as we can organize the WCCC ourselves, setup competions and >and and. I'm not sure you want to completely eliminate this. Suggestion: At the continental level, run ICS or FICS or whatever contests to determine a winner. Another notion: Since it is automated, make it a huge round robin at 40/2. In such a way it would be so tedious to cheat, it is another barrier, and also would make it a lot more likely that the best program really wins. Since it is a chess engine that won't get tired or something, have it run around the clock. Let's suppose (for instance) that the US has 24 entrants. Have each entrant face the 23 others in round robin format playing two games (one as white and one as black). Similarly for the other continents (South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia/Oceania). This is the continental qualification round. Now, have the top 3 from each continent in North and South America play each other in a 6-program round-robin (40/2, 2 games each). The top 3 finishers (possibly 4, as _at least_ one from each continent will qualify) will form the Americas team. Repeat this process for Europe + Asia to find the Eurasian team. Again, for Africa and Australia/Oceania for the 3rd team. We will now have between 9 and 12 qualifiers. These qualifiers could be invited to a public match, where the programmers get to meet. Mostly it is a social event, but it would be nice for the programmers to get to meet once in a while. The continent where this meeting takes place must rotate in the following set rotation: North America (for year%7 == 0) /* Canada/Mexico/US --> membership chooses */ South America (for year%7 == 1) /* 2003 % 7 = 1, if meeting in 2003, meet here */ Europe (for year%7 == 2) Asia (for year%7 == 3) Africa (for year%7 == 4) Australia (for year%7 == 5) Russia (for year%7 == 6) If a qualifier is unable to attend, there will be provisions made for remote participation. For the finals, the participation would have to be supervised by an independent party suitable to the bare majority of the association's membership. Just one idea. At any rate, I think having the programmers get together once a year (if they are able) would be nice -- especially for those who would like to be able to do that. And if you cannot meet in a foreign country, you can still participate.
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