Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 03:07:26 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. Not at all, the rules where announced month in advance, that's plenty of time for anyone to hack a GUI and connect to a server. And that is assuming they don't have such capability already, which I'm quite sure they do, there seems to be hundredes of shredders playing on different servers. >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. Basicly it's about automation, kibitzing pv's is for the spectators and to rule out cheating. It's 100 times more interesting when you can see what your opponent thinks. Interfaces that can't do this aren't good interfaces, IMO, but if this is giving the commercials a hard time maybe we should consider changing it. >Tournament without top comercial programs it is not interesting tournamnet. Sure it is, Ruffian is always a killer and Crafty on that super machine of Bob's is also a contender, maybe Ferret, Yace, Quark and others too can give the commercials a good run for their money. I hope that future and more serious championships will be held on the net so everyone has a chance to compete. >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. You are even content to replace private engines with public engines, so what's your point, you can play tournmants at home right, and then what? Are you arguing this is this a bad thing or a good thing? You can also buy all the commercials and we can abolish the world championship, we can let you run a tournament and announce the winner. Much easier for everyone, no need to travel, more time efficient - no waiting between round. Sounds like a good proposal, don't you agree? -S. >Regards >Grzegorz
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