Author: José Carlos
Date: 16:09:25 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 19:03:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 18:27:24, Kevin Strickland wrote: > >>On July 16, 2002 at 18:11:01, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>A few thoughts about this: >>> >>>1) If you make this an open tournament, and you get the kind of response you >>>want to get, you've basically just said "commercials only", almost, since there >>>are a lot of commercials and they are strong. Almost all of the commercials are >>>European. So you've just created a tournament in North America, from which >>>North American amateurs would be squeezed out. >> >>That is not what I am trying to do. Can you imagine all the commercials and >>_all_ the amateur programs attending. That would be close to 200 participants. > >Yes, I can imagine it, but this might be hard to get. Also, there will be space >considerations unless you hold this in a gymnasium, which would be alright with >me, frankly. > >>This is not what _is_ going to happen, I am simply looking for feedback. >> >> >>>So you need to have way way more than 12 entrants. >>> >>>2) With this in mind, having multiple qualification tournaments doesn't make a >>>lot of sense. What you really really want to do is invite everyone. I'd hope >>>that you'd have room for everyone, but if you don't, you should invite as many >>>as you can. >> >>Want to help me compile a list of programmer email addresses to that I can cc >>the email to 200 people at once? I would be more than happy to have 200 programs >>here. Can you imagine the response? It would be incredible and more than likely >>the biggest computer chess tournament in history. > >Not now, I'm going in sane. But I'll tell you how to do it. Go here: > >http://www.winboardengines.de/html/winboard-update-list.html This site is probably more up to date: http://home.hccnet.nl/leo.dijksman/EnginesIndex.html José C.
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