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Subject: Re: CCT6 point of order

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 18:11:32 01/21/04

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On January 21, 2004 at 15:20:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>This does not exactly make a new program "established" just because it has
>played in some privately-held event somewhere.  IE bionic, voyager and le petite
>also played in _many_ such events.  They were _all_ copies of Crafty.  We have
>to address this problem (not to mention the problem of amateurs that are
>secretly using commercial engines)...

Participating in this kind of event is better than nothing. For instance,
Chiron's rating in WBEC is 1933. If it wins CCT6, or beats quad Opteron Crafty,
or beats Rebel, etc., then something is obviously going on. But you're right,
it's not a good general solution.



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