Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 12:50:31 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? Perhaps, but I think you'll find that the participating programmers had a great time regardless of the fact that the commercial guys didn't turn up. > >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? Ferret was kibitzing on the second day. I think his initial non compliance was the result of an oversight. > >It seems that there was allowances made for some, and not others. Why was this >the case? Allowances were made for those who were participating in the spirit of the competition. > >I am sure if the rule had not been in place, the likes of Shredder, Fritz, and >possibly Junior would have participated. I'm not so sure of that. It would be quite easy for the commercial authors to implement kibitzing if they wanted to. There are a number of bigger reasons they didn't play: 1) too busy 2) too much risk of bad publicity 3) chessbase doesn't want to promote ICC when they have a competing server 4) lack of a well recognised title (compared to ICGA World Champs) >Chess Tiger already has the ability to >kibitz the pv from the program, so that was not Christophe's reasoning for not >joining. > >I think that if a program is automated is enough to play in the next CCT. If not >then we might have the same result.
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