Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:14:06 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 17:25:53, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >For me the CCT5 was like the superbowl in computer chess. I had a tremedous time >being every minute on the ICC for last weekend and watching the matches. >Programming an engine myself, I would have loved to join, but unfortunately I >still need a couple of month hacking on my engine that I can participitate with >it to honorably reach the last place. :) > >I'm not particularly bothered that commercial engines stay away. It is a great >event to let the amateur engines measured up against themselves. Perhaps, for >commercials, the WCCC is more interesting. Although I think this is a good >opportunity to get into contact with the users and advertise. > >Thanks again for all the fun > >sephirot The main point is the size of the event/number of participants. The two largest computer chess events ever held were ICCT events. :) Probably all five were larger than any single WMCCC/WCCC event, in fact... It's certainly "the future". Hell, the ICCA can't even automate play in a single playing hall. We just did it from all over the world. :)
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