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Subject: Re: KKUP 2 -- the race is on!

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 13:21:30 10/29/98

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On October 28, 1998 at 06:20:55, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>On October 27, 1998 at 21:24:55, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>There are two remaining games in KKUP2.  Now is when the real excitement begins!
>> Since it is now nearly November, we have to ask ourselves, "Will these games
>>finish before the end of the year and the start of KKUP 3?!"
>>
>>A while back, I saw a tiny bit of motion.  But once again, they are starting to
>>rust.  The drama mounts, "Will the rusty gears allow the programs to squeak
>>forward past the finish line in time?"
>>
>>With the Fritz/CM5500 game now on move 48, we could possibly have some kind of a
>>record.  So far, 268 days since the start on February 1st.  95 ply so far gives
>>.35 ply per day, or one full move every 5.6 days.
>>
>>Is there a record for this sort of thing?  Snail chess?!  Does any
>>correspondence chess expert know how long the longest correspondence game is?
>>
>>Also, out of curiosity, how long did KKUP 1 take to finish?
>
>The last one was finished after 5 months.
>Correspondence chess used to be very slow, it took
>years, but as this is the internet, it should be
>definitely faster. It just cannot be that somebody
>enters the tournament and then he is very often
>on business trips for 2 weeks or so. If somebody
>knows before that this will happen, he should not
>take part as operator. Bert

Nice suggestion but we have never had enough players. Don't forget that the
dreaded ajudication date is coming up soon.
--
Komputer Korner



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