Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 05:54:46 09/22/03
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On September 22, 2003 at 08:39:41, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Grzegorz, > >>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. >>Majority institute justice. > >the things you have said might be true for the spectators - as a participant the >opposite is true. As a participant I love most those in between discussions with >the opponents. Also this kibitzing is very important in my opinion - it gives a >good comparison between the programs - in depth and in score. And I never use so >much time to watch my engine thinking then during such tournaments. >So now about the commercials: usually it is an operator and not the programmer >that participate. This is really not interesting, about what should I discuss >with that one ? Without kibitzing you have no comparisson... >The only negativ thing about the kibitz and automated rule is, that some >amateurs could not participate because their chessprogram is written in a >language which makes it impossible to participate. For me that is the sad side >of the rule, nothing else. I do not miss the commercials at all. No tears for >them... And if they really WANT to participate it would be easy for them. But >they simply don't want to... > >Greets, Thomas I agree with every word of this!! Andrew
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