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Subject: Re: CCT: why this rule?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 01:14:29 09/22/03

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On September 22, 2003 at 03:51:00, Grzegorz Sidorowicz wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 16:34:51, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>Does anyone remember if there was a reason for this rule in CCT?
>>
>>Q: Are there manually playing allowed?
>>A: No. Only playing with an autoplayer-interface eg. winboard or other are
>>allowed.
>>The following informations must be shown during the game: evaluation, depth and
>>predicted moves .
>>Additionally, it will be nice if bookmoves or tablebasemoves will be shown.
>
>Last CCT was only for winboarders in practice.
>In my opinion it was very bad idea. On the net we can easy find
>many winboard's tournaments. I can't see any reason why people who
>haven't got winboard support must do it for this tournament.
>Tournament without top comercial programs it is not interesting tournamnet.

I definitely don't agree with this. All the CCTs have been fantastic fun in my
opinion.

>Majority institute justice.
>In my opinion stupid justice becaue now we can play CCT tournament
>in our home on our computers. Ferret, Commet, Quark aren't problems, beacuse
>we can easy find freeware strong programs as Crafty, Ruffian and Yace.
>Weak chess programs we can easy find of course. We don't must think
>about one or two people, oooops...one or two chess programs.
>
>Regards
>Grzegorz

Andrew



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