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Subject: Re: CCT5 - Now 24 Participants

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 13:08:38 12/31/02

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On December 31, 2002 at 15:41:17, Andrew Williams wrote:

>But this was always true. And Tiger and Shredder and Junior and others have
>participated in the past.

And they didn't have to be automated, and there weren't other rules like
kibitzing. It's not that those rules are so hard to follow. It's just the extra
annoyance of having to deal with them. It was probably a fun thing to
participate in in past years, but now we are starting to pile on the rules, and
now what used to be fun has become work, an obligation, a hassle.

>I'm not sure what else you could. If it's not in  the rules, why would anyone
>bother?

That is the correct method (putting it in the rules), but this is not the right
event. The problem is not that the amateur engines of the world don't support
winboard. The problem is that the commercial engines don't support it (if this
is not the case, there is no problem, and this rule is meaningless). It will
take some major event (probably WCCC or WMCCC) to require such a rule, and then
it will become a standard thing at other events. Requiring it in an event as
weak as this one isn't going to accomplish forward progress. So far, it's been
nothing but backwards.

Either it should be fun or it should be serious. If it's fun, drop the serious
rules. If it's serious, do something to bring the serious competitors ($$$). Fun
+ serious rules + no prize fund = failure. If the rules stay the same next time
around (if there is a next time), participation will continue to dwindle, and
eventually no one will want to run the event.



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