Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:30:39 01/28/04
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On January 28, 2004 at 10:11:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 28, 2004 at 06:02:21, José Carlos wrote: > >> I agree with most that odd number of participants sucks, and that in case of >>odd number we should allow Olithink to participate this time. But if someone >>else complains he/she would have exactly the same right as Oliver to enter the >>tournament after the deadline. >> So for CCT7 I suggest to have a reserve engine decided _before_ the deadline >>comes. Gnuchess is an option but, in principle, any not so strong engine >>qualifies. There could be, for instance, in the register form an option to vote >>for a reserve engine among a list of logical candidates (GNU, TSCP, Gerbil, >>...). >> >> José C. > > >I would propose the following: > >1. Olithink plays. I don't see a problem with a last-minute addition, >particularly if it eliminates the "bye" issue. > >2. We _always_ have a "provisional entry" (gnuchessx or tscp or something) "on >call" so that if someone has to drop out at the last minute, we don't end up >with an odd number of players and the bye problem again. I noticed in one post that the tomato robot can't handle non-same-day tourneys. It seems to me that it is essential to have a robot that could, taking the load off the one poor guy (Volker). This might make such tourneys easier to manage, and thus we might have more of them than just one a year, and just one format. The easier these are to automate, the more it will open up options for competition. There are so many decent engines now, that you could have entire championship cycles with a "zonal" round-robins leading up to a penultimate match, all within a simgle year. The sophistication that this automation would enable would blow away the marginal, archaic, manual, human-error-prone ECCC.
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