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Subject: Re: 1998 WCCC and/or WMCCC sponsorship

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:26:46 07/17/98

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On July 17, 1998 at 15:16:23, Christophe Theron wrote:

>We could vote on that. CCC offers the opportunity to vote, and many chess
>programmers could give their opinion. Personnaly I don't mind in fact. The most
>important is that we have an event with enough rounds to get a reasonnably
>reliable result.

The organizer should just specify it.  Part of organizing is that you get to put
on the tournament that you want.  If I were organizing it, it would bother me if
people tried to put every aspect of the tournament to a democratic vote.

I would like to see stuff settled before I get plane tickets though.  I had some
concern that people would try to ban Alphas during the player's meeting at the
Paris event, and this would have bothered me greatly, considering that Seattle
to Paris was a pretty substantial plane ticket.

>So we are talking about a "nearly uniform platform" event, WMCPC, which could be
>organized without any sponsor, as we already have a place to do it.
>
>Would you like to enter WMCPC with Ferret?

I think this is too weird, but I might still show up.  I don't like the idea of
trying to handicap programs running on different hardware, there is no way to
get it exactly right, and in some cases it might be hard to come anywhere close.
 I don't think it makes sense to even try.

If there is a uniform event running on provided hardware I am more likely to
show up than if there is a strange time handicapping system.

bruce



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