Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 12:58:08 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 15:50:31, Peter McKenzie 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? > >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) And those are all very good reasons. I just was assuming that the kibitzing rule might have been the reason.
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