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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