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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