Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:34:05 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 18:14:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. :) Woohoo :) Is there a reason why we can't make regular computer chess tournaments on ICC? There seems to be shouts all the time about (human) blitz tourney results and stuff. So I guess tournaments are pretty daily phenomenon on ICC. We could have a small tourney every week or month. Of course probably couldn't gather 48 engines, but 15 or 20 might be a realistic number? -S.
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