Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:02:46 12/13/03
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On December 13, 2003 at 19:15:00, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On December 13, 2003 at 19:02:23, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On December 13, 2003 at 18:29:42, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>On December 13, 2003 at 18:12:17, Russell Reagan wrote: >>> >>>>On December 13, 2003 at 05:31:25, Amir Ban wrote: >>>> >>>>>Well, if without Chessbase engines you'll have a better event and make progress, >>>>>I won't stand in your way. >>>> >>>>Your statement sounds like the people who tried to hold on to DOS too long when >>>>Windows (and other multitasking operating systems) were clearly the future. >>>>"Well, if without real mode you'll have better programs and make progress, I >>>>won't stand in your way." You don't hear too many of those people these days. Is >>>>Ed Schröder the only one left? :) Clearly, multiuser and multitasking operating >>>>systems are progress over DOS. >>>> >>>>45 participants is a heck of a lot more than 14. If there are 40 participants >>>>instead, that's still a heck of a lot more than 14, with plenty of strong >>>>competition. If we had this kind of participation along with the Chessbase >>>>engines, that would be great, but I'll take 40+ participants with no Chessbase >>>>participants over 14 including Chessbase participants. >>> >>>What was the average rating in Graz? What is the average rating in CCT? >> >>By this logic the tournament would have been even better with only Shredder, >>Junior and Fritz. >>The others just dragged down the rating, obviously. > >OK, let me put it this way: how many top programs participated in Graz? How many >will participate in CCT? > >Having a chess championship without Junior/Fritz/Shredder is like having a >football worldcup without Brazil, Italy, Germany, England... (and if like CCT >you don't have any "drug tests", then Argentina will easily win, thanks to >Maradona :) > > >> >>>If quantity is the only important factor for you, then you can take 100 free >>>winboard engines, run a tournament on your computer, and crown the winner with >>>the world champion title. >> >>Quantity is important, quantity means support, interest and recognition. >> >>Where was Tiger, where was Rebel, Ruffian, SmarThink, Crafty, Yace... in your >>little shootout? > >Had they thought they had any chance to win the championship, they would have >shown up. That statement is so far beyond stupid... it really doesn't deserve a response. Drop over to ICC tonight or tomorrow night, try the quad opteron Crafty on for size in a game or two. Then come back and make that statement. It's been hitting 9M+ nodes per second and is _not_ a pushover. I could probably have shown up with a 16-way machine at the very least. Do you _really_ think it would have no chance? :) I've explained why _I_ didn't go. It had _nothing_ to do with the probability of winning being too low. _I_ entered ACM and WCCC events when deep thought was playing, so it obviously didn't stop me back then. Stop with the short one-liners that have _zero_ basis in reality. Or come over to ICC for a _real_ dose of reality... > > > >> >>Could it be they didn't find it worth the trouble, or were they just too busy >>preparing for CCT6? >> >>-S.
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