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Subject: Re: CCT: why this rule?

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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