Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 12:49:02 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 15:45:59, Uri Blass wrote: >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? No this is only an assumption as Fritz and Junior have participated in the past. I could understand Junior not participating due to it's match with Kasparov. I do not know of any other reason that Fritz would not have participated.
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