Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:03:11 12/11/03
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On December 11, 2003 at 06:20:48, Amir Ban wrote: >On December 10, 2003 at 19:04:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>handshake, how do operators delay the next round ? >> >>I can't ever recall an event where the starting time was announced as 7pm >>and at 7pm all N games started. With automatic software this would not >>happen. Even more important, start times can be moved up when all games >>finish early. But not if we depend on operators as they can go to eat, >>knowing the next round doesn't start until 7pm. When it might actually start >>at 6pm if everyone were ready. Even more importantly, NO operator time would >>be needed or lost. It would be computer vs computer, with no time lost in >>relaying moves, whatsoever. >> > >Rounds start at the scheduled times, not because the operators go shopping. If >the TD wants to compress schedules, he just says this to the operators, and it >happens. At every event I have attended, less than 1/2 the games started on time. Operators drag in. Machines have been powered down. Etc... > >It's not the operators, but the spectators and the press who want it to start on >scheduled time. Turn on to ICC to view the game of the century on 1100 EST. >Oops! It's already over. > >I have a solution to this: Why not make the *spectators* automatic too :-) >Scrappy(C) can watch the game for you, and you'll be free to do more classes. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. :) I already do this. I have "hyatt" log on automatically, observe interesting games, plus capture channel 64 and 211 tells, and log them to a file. I can replay this later when I have time to pay attention. :) > >This suggestion mean unmanned, unwatched, un-TD'ed events (i.e. SSDF). Do you >think I want to fly to Austria, have breakfast at the hotel, come to the >tournament hall, and find out that the championship ended overnight ? I wouldn't go that far, no. But 3 rounds per day, when no humans are needed, is easily doable. You can eat when you want, whether a round is going on or not. IE we could have these stupid 12 round 16 player events and do it in _four_ days. > >It should have been a draw anyway. But just wait to see the length of the thread >when the championship is decided by two programs misunderstanding each other >while the TD was out shopping. > >Amir I would hope that doesn't happen. I haven't had a "hang" on ICC in _years_ over hundreds of thousands of games...
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