Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:59:02 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? If someone is afraid to join, then no luster is lost. If someone is too busy preparing for some other event, then no luster is lost. What will be the cause of the lost luster you describe? >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? Kibitzing does not change the outcome, unless someone is cheating and using the output to ponder. >It seems that there was allowances made for some, and not others. Why was this >the case? Probably because it was in the best interest of all parties. The originator of the tournament has no commercial interests or any conflicts that I know of. Therefore issues such as "Was there dirty pool involved?" are irrelevant. >I am sure if the rule had not been in place, the likes of Shredder, Fritz, and >possibly Junior would have participated. Zero chance that it would have changed anything. >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. The commercials probably won't join any more. The amateur programs are strong enough to beat them. Therefore, they have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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