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Subject: Re: CCT-style tournament at longer time control: any interest?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 20:28:38 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 21:50:31, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I would like something even more sluggish:
>
>One at postal rates, with computers running overnight and coughing up one move
>per day (A KKUP sort of thingy).
>
>Then, it won't interfere with work, because the program churns while you are
>sleeping.
>
>We could do time allotments to normalize the hardware.

Mmmm...sounds interesting :)

I've always wondered how top chess programs would do against top humans at
correspondance time control. One thing I have wondered in the past is whether
you would hold the match against top human correspondence chess players, or if
you would hold it with top GM's, only with longer time controls. I guess the
issue is, would Kasparov or Kramnik be better than the top two correspondence
chess players in the world at correspondance chess?

As far as a CCC (correspondence computer chess) tournament, how would one run
that? You said the programs could only search at night, but how would you
enforce such a rule? Maybe the player to move gets the opponent's move from a
3rd party (website?) and then has 12 hours (or however long) to submit it's
move, and then participants could start their turn at their lesiure (within
reason). But then the other player could have a variable time window to do extra
pondering. But that would also encourage each player to take their 12 hour turn
(or however long) promptly, to avoid giving the opponent extra pondering time.
Anyway, I like the idea, as long as these kinds of details could be worked out.

Russell



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