Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:45:59 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 15:38:00, Peter Skinner wrote: >With the lack of commercial products participating in the CCT, does it lose some >of the luster in winning it? > >Of course there are always going to be "what ifs" when all participants do not >play. Ferret was allowed to play without kibitzing any information. What would >have happened if Fritz joined and did the same? Would the result have been the >same? > >It seems that there was allowances made for some, and not others. Why was this >the case? Bruce simply did not know about the rules and it was a mistake of Volker when he did not ask the people to write I agree that my program kibitz automatically the pv and the nodes and the time when it plays. The problem of not kibizing was only in the first day and I understood that the players that did not kibitz in the first day kibited in the second day. > >I am sure if the rule had not been in place, the likes of Shredder, Fritz, and >possibly Junior would have participated. I guess that it is not the reason for them not to play. Did one of the programmers said that he is not going to play because of that reason? Uri
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