Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 01:22:56 09/22/03
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On September 21, 2003 at 18:47:40, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 21, 2003 at 17:05:40, Andrew Williams wrote: > >>On September 21, 2003 at 16:51:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On September 21, 2003 at 16:46:27, Edward Seid wrote: >>> >>>>I just wondered if there was a specific situation that occurred that caused >this rule to be implemented. Like who was involved and what happened. >>> >>>There were several accusations in the past tournament about >>>people overruling moves from their engines. At least one of the >>>people involved later admitted he manually interfered with the >>>time usage of the engine. >>> >>>PS. I don't think the current rules actually prevent this >>>either, which is why I'm not so hot about online tournaments. >>> >> >>Hi GCP, >> >>I agree that it's still possible to interfere, but it just makes it more >>difficult, which is the point, IMHO. Perhaps as a professional it's not >>"watertight" enough, but for the amateurs I think it is sufficient. >> >>Andrew > >The main problem was the fear that non programmers will participate. >This was the reason for the duty to kibitz. > >The fear that programmers will change the time management or the move of the >program is not the big problem because I think that in a lot of cases it is not >going to be productive. > >Personally I prefer to have a tournament when the programmers have the right to >change the move or the time management of the program but in case that they do >it the program needs to kibitz information about it. > >I think that it is going to be more interesting. > I really don't agree with this. I'm sure there is room for such a tournament, but CCT was originally designed as an online tournament for chess programs. Not for chess program + programmer intervention. That's a different sort of tournament. Andrew
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