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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:55:05 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 23:28:38, Russell Reagan wrote:
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>I've always wondered how top chess programs would do against top humans at
>correspondance time control.

See the "Mike Valvo verses Deep Blue prototype" for an example of a human
correspondence master blowing the doors off of a computer program.

>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?

Only way to find out is to try it.

>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?

Gentleman's agreement.  It is a good idea to have someine besides the author run
the program so that it might remain scientifically objective.

>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.

Just use standard correspondence chess rules (breaks when needed, etc.)



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