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Subject: Re: Speaking of contests -- idea for a long time control 'open'

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 00:09:41 12/04/98

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On December 03, 1998 at 20:52:46, Komputer Korner wrote:
>On December 03, 1998 at 04:08:17, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>One move must be submitted per day.  Use any hardware you want.  Use GM advice
>>if you like.  If you fail to make a move within 24 hours after receipt of the
>>previous move, you forfeit on time.  Leave pondering on if you like.  Basically,
>>it would be a "ply per day" tournament with the moves produced any way you like.
>
>Dann, this is awfully close to the KK Kup rules.
What I have in mind is far different.  You can play on a 386.  You can play on a
4 CPU PII 450.  You can play on a Connection machine with 16,000 processors
running *Socrates.  You can ask a GM for advice.  You can make your own pick by
scanning a database.  You can play as a single human with a 1500 ELO [don't
think you will last long].  What I am looking for is the *best possible* chess,
from whatever source you can derive it.  Single elimination: you lose and you
are done.  A ton of players -- 128 would be ideal.  If I ever do stage a match
like this it is more than a year away.  I want to think about it carefully.  I
do everything slowly that way.  If you want to incorporate some of these ideas
in KKUP 3, that would be great, but I think that goal is different for KKUP
1/2/3: to find the strongest chess program.  My goal is to find the strongest
chess.  See the difference?  You could even use ten different programs along
with a GM friend in my system.  You just have to produce a move within 24 hours
when it is your turn.  But at your say-so, I will simply drop the whole idea.  I
don't want to try and _compete_ with the KKUP, which is a marvelous tradition,
and which I fully intend to participate in (if allowed).  Even if I do try it,
it won't be for quite a while.  I am just gathering ideas right now.



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