Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 12:24:12 09/22/03
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On September 22, 2003 at 08:54:46, Andrew Williams wrote: >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 Actually, I've got no problems with certain operators of amateur programs (Peter Berger and Jose Luis Jiminez spring to mind) because they are knowledgeable about the programs they operate and the authors are usually there as well anyway. I guess I'd have no problem with an operator for a commercial programmer if the programmer was there too and prepared to comment. But I would still insist on *automatic* kibitzing from the program. That's a must-have in my opinion. Andrew
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