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Subject: Re: CCT5, was there something missing?

Author: Volker Richey

Date: 14:33:34 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?
>
Ferret and Pharaon has fixed this for the 2nd day.


>It seems that there was allowances made for some, and not others. Why was this
>the case?
>
>I am sure if the rule had not been in place, the likes of Shredder, Fritz, and
>possibly Junior would have participated. Chess Tiger already has the ability to
>kibitz the pv from the program, so that was not Christophe's reasoning for not
>joining.
>
I was the fritz-operator at cct3 and cct4. - And?
Now we have the fritz server - fritzfans can held tournaments
with dozens of fritz7,8,deepfritz.
We must go back to the sprit of computer-chess, away from
commercial interests and marketing tactics.

>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.

next cct, its importand thats operators will be reachable!!!
No, stand alone systems allowed!!!



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