Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 22:19:27 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? You should be looking at it this way: How many countries participated in Graz? How many countries are participating in CCT? Somewhere, the "World" got left out of WCCC. In your worldview, only the Germans, Chinese, Fmr Soviet Republics and the USA need bother attending the Olympics. The ICGA event resembles this remark. > >Having a chess championship without Junior/Fritz/Shredder is like having a >football worldcup without Brazil, Italy, Germany, England... You seem to be suggesting that these three somehow hold the credibility of CC events hostage by whatever whim or happenstance prevents their attendance. Since when is any "world" competition a supplicant to such a small minority of potential participants. After all, we know that such tournaments are not often won by the strongest player, but by the most fortunate _strong_ player. This diminishes your point into irrelevance, does it not? Besides, Israel, Germany, and the Netherlands are strongly represented in CCT, anyway. >(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. > > > >> >>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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