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Subject: Re: Idea: GCS FRC Computer Championship

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 14:30:12 06/22/03

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On June 22, 2003 at 15:29:09, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On June 22, 2003 at 14:36:48, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>The Global Chess Server (GCS) fully supports FRC.  See
>>http://www.uschesslive.org/help4/cl_fr_rules.htm
>>
>>Since people seem to be touchy with the use of the phrase "World Championship",

Actually the word was not randomly selected.

Think about it, it would be a tournament with all the FRC-aware engines of this
world, what else would it be than a world championship?
In fact, that I'd say that would be the main point of the whole thing. :)
If some people don't like that, then that's their problem.

Ok, a tournament is always nice of course, even if it is "titleless". :)

>>I'd suggest organizing a GCS FRC Computer Championship.  If there's indeed
>>interest in making this into a reality, I can help organize it.  Let's talk
>>about format, time control, etc...
>>
>
>Ok.
>
>The CCT format is probably a good example for an FRC online tournament. The
>difference would probably be the number of participating engines.

I like the CCT format a lot.

>As the number of FRC engines is currently limited I propose to set the format
>initially at (D)RR. If there are more than e.g. 10 participating engines, we
>could switch to swiss. I don't think that's  a big problem.

Yes, 1RR or 2RR depending on the number of engines, sounds good to me.

>I would like to have 9 rounds or so.

At least :)

-S.



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