Author: Peter Berger
Date: 01:49:55 11/19/03
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On November 19, 2003 at 03:17:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 19, 2003 at 00:53:54, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>We've been doing exactly this for 4 years now. The tournament gets bigger and >>stronger every year. > >Here are some numbers: > >Event | Participants | Avg Top 10 ELO | Avg Top 5 ELO >CCT1 | 22 | 2531 | 2655 >CCT2 | 21 | 2383 | 2504 >CCT3 | 32 | 2605 | 2685 >CCT4 | 46 | 2624 | 2680 >CCT5 | 45 | 2521 | 2546 > >The events appear to be growing, but I'm not sure they're getting stronger. Last >year (CCT5) was the second weakest field out of the five events so far, with no >commercial participants. Hopefully last year wasn't the beginning of a trend, >but I fear that it is. I am convinced it would be possible to make the CCTs much more important with only minor changes. It's interesting that the first ones with little rules had several professionals taking part, and the last one that tried to adress some of their concerns expressed earlier had none of them. There are different directions to go: the CCTs can be a social event with an amateur tournament involved or it might be possible to let them be an additional major computerchess tournament or maybe even become sth of similar importance as WCCC. There is nothing wrong with the first solution of course, but the second one has a certain charme too. I wonder if anyone ever tried to find out what would be needed to increase the number of professionals taking part by simply asking each team? Did anyone ever contact ICGA to see if they might be interested to get involved with them? Now that we even have an "ICGA worldchampion for play in virtual reality" no one can deny that they might be interested :). Peter
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