Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:21:38 07/08/02
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On July 08, 2002 at 22:46:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Ah well... I'm going to continue to support ICC tournaments and hope that >those eventually replace the ICCA since they are far more "international" in >flavor than what the ICCA has been doing in recent years... I think online tournaments or matches would be the way to go. The only drawback I can think of is that you might have a cheater in there somewhere. With an online tournament, the interest could grow without limit. Any kid in their bedroom could create a program and participate, and that's good for increasing interests. That is the very reason I became interested in chess in the first place, and later computer chess. I saw how professional sports were. If you weren't 7 feet tall, or couldn't run a 40 yard dash in 4 seconds, or didn't have the extremely rare ability to hit a round ball with a round bat, you weren't going to be a professional athlete. In chess you are limited to some degree by your genes, but there aren't many sports where anyone can take it up as a hobby and compete with professionals, and that's why I got interested in it. The "I could do that" thought. Same with computer chess. For the ICCA championships, not everyone can do that. You may be a highly talented programmer with incredibly revolutionary ideas about computer chess, but if you are a kid in high school who's parents don't approve of you going to Europe for a week by yourself, you're out of luck. If, however, you are a kid in high school (or an adult that works, or anyone else) you can connect to the net on the weekend, compete with people from around the entire world. I like that a lot. When I heard about CCT4 in the last quarter of 2001, I had already been tinkering with a chess program on and off for quite a while, and that gave me a ton of motivation to work on it. Of course, that motivation led to a lot of realization that I had a lot to learn rather than to any real progress on my engine, but now I am making progress, and the thought of future ICC tournaments like that are the main driving force for my continued development of my own engine, since I will likely never travel to Europe for a week for a computer chess tournament. I _know_ others are the same way. I remember William H Rogers say somethhing to the effect of "I better get working on my engine" when someone brought up CCT5 fairly recently. The same for me, and I would assume for others as well. Speaking of CCT5, I better get to work on my engine! Russell
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