Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:36:44 12/10/03
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On December 10, 2003 at 02:46:34, Johan de Koning wrote: >On December 08, 2003 at 01:36:30, Matthew Hull wrote: > >Since I don't see the connection with my posting I'll take the >liberty to treat your "reply" as Matt's summary sofar. > >>I'm not an engine programmer (except in my dreams), > >Some of us are engine programmers, and sometimes also in our dreams. >Believe me, those aren't our finest dreams. > >> but if I were, I think I'd >>be very keen to compete. But I personally don't like being a part of something >>I believe is being mangaged in an inexcusably wrong way. I really don't like >>being a part of something that is vastly sub-optimal, hide-bound and retrograde. > >Since you're not part of it, consider yourself happy. > >> For me, the abscense of auto-playing is mind-bogglingly stupid. And the >>intransigence of commercial programmers in not writing to open standards like >>xboard and ICS is perfectly blithering, IMO. It is simply against networking >>progress. It is like some kind of ludditism. > >History is the keyword. >Computer chess is the oldest branch in Artificial Sport, and it >suffers from its success. It's not an ideal situation, but it can't >be undone. Technicalities *could* be simple and well defined, but >they would be the equivalent of laws in a brave new world. > >> Add to all this the complete >>non-sensical 11 round swiss for 16 entries at one round per day for most of the >>event, stretching out the time wasted, raising the cost for the participants, >>coupled with execrable tournament directing, and what do you have? Bloody >>barking madness, that's what you have. > >The advantage of 11 rounds is that it stretches out the time wasted. I know a few fellow employees with a taste for the boondoggle. Not many Americans can afford to finance these on their own salary. >Ask anyone who was there about the wasted time and they'll answer: >a) there was very little time to waste, or OK, some are slow. >b) very little time was wasted, or Bad evaluation function. ;) >c) lots of wasted time and I loved every minute of it. Is this the European way or just the ICGA way? Matt > >... Johan
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