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Subject: Re: What changes to the WCCC would make it better?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:47:45 12/15/03

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On December 14, 2003 at 21:35:11, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>2- Holding it in North America every once in awhile would certainly help.

Sure, just get some sponsors ready :)

>3- A process applied _prior_ to the event to _all_ participants certifying it >is not a clone.

I'll go by the process and turn up with my clone. What you propose is not
practically attainable.

>4- A process applied _prior_ to the event to _all_ participants certifying it
>can follow all the rules of chess in a satisfatory manner e.g. draw offers,
>draws by repetition, draws by the 50 move rule, resignation procedure, etc. and
>anything else I can't think of all without operator interferance.

You won't catch all bugs. You think Stefan went to the WCCC knowing Shredder
had a buggy draw by rep?

>5- Only require the program author to attend on the last couple of rounds (a
>weekend), so that the impact on the program author's bank account, job, family
>life and/or other obligations is minimized. For example, a local volunteer
>would handle the earlier rounds. Hiring a local "volunteer" should still be a
>more affordable option.

I'm not interested in playing with or against someone who doesn't know a thing
about the program.

>6- The organizer should offer the optional use of locally provided monitor, UPS
>and even entire systems including duals and quads. This would save the
>participant the cost and anguish of transporting the hardware and adapting it >to local electrical power system, etc. This could be worked in as a possible
>source of advertising revenue from computer hardware retailers or
>manufacturers.

Hahaha, again, just find sponsors.

Note that this WCCC hardware was provided, it just was slow. I'd request
a Quad Opteron 2.2Ghz and complain if you don't provide it of course :)

>7- Local "zonal" events to pick qualifiers for the main event, which could then
>have a fixed number participants in a round robin.

Very messy and probably not needed.

--
GCP



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