Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 17:12:26 01/01/03
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On December 31, 2002 at 20:05:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 31, 2002 at 12:48:02, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On December 31, 2002 at 08:07:18, Andrew Williams wrote: >> >>>On December 31, 2002 at 07:16:06, Jason Williamson wrote: >>> >>>>Not long now until the ICC Amateur Winboard tournament starts. >>> >>>I am very much looking forward to CCT5, but what makes you so sure that some >>>professionals won't enter? >> >>What makes you think they will? No interface for them to participate. Sure they >>could write one, but why go through the trouble? There is no incentive for them >>to join. If they win, of course they were supposed to win, they were a >>commercial program among amateurs. If they don't win, then the decision to >>participate was one of the worst they could make. There is no prize for winning, >>so why would a commercial participant join? > >Because they _can_. Tiger has an ICC interface already. ChessPartner works >just fine. Junior has an ICC interface. I'd _bet_ that others do even though >they don't distribute them... > In regards to Junior's ICC interface -- is this something that Amir wrote? I could be wrong, but I am reasonably certain the Junior team used Ebbi's winboard232 adapter in CCT4. If they already had an ICC interface, why would they use the adapter? -elc.
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