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Subject: Re: Adjudication of final KKK Kup Game

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 11:58:47 12/07/98

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On December 04, 1998 at 20:58:54, Howard Exner wrote:

>On December 04, 1998 at 20:00:10, Howard Exner wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 1998 at 00:08:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On December 02, 1998 at 15:25:48, Komputer Korner wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 01, 1998 at 19:00:29, Milton Zucker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>It looks like there is still one KKK Kup game which has not been completed
>>>>>between Fritz 5 and CM 5500.  Quoting from rule 8 posted on the web page:
>>>>>
>>>>>8) All games will be adjudicated by the date of December 1, 1998, 12:01 am
>>>>>E.S.T.
>>>>>if they haven't finished by that time. The start date is February 1, 1998.
>>>>>The adjudication board will consist of Bruce Moreland, Chris Whittington
>>>>>and Bert Seifriz. Hopefully this board will not have any games to adjudicate. If
>>>>>your
>>>>>program is ahead, please don't drag your heels on responding as this is a
>>>>>scientific test and not a contest. I would have to annul that result if that
>>>>>happens, but I expect that everyone understands that this is in the interest of
>>>>>science.8) All games will be adjudicated by the date of December 1, 1998, 12:01
>>>>>am E.S.T.
>>>>>if they haven't finished by that time. The start date is February 1, 1998.
>>>>>The adjudication board will consist of Bruce Moreland, Chris Whittington
>>>>>and Bert Seifriz. Hopefully this board will not have any games to adjudicate. If
>>>>>your
>>>>>program is ahead, please don't drag your heels on responding as this is a
>>>>>scientific test and not a contest. I would have to annul that result if that
>>>>>happens, but I expect that everyone understands that this is in the interest of
>>>>>science.
>>>>>
>>>>>So my question is: How is the game adjudicated?
>>>>>
>>>>>...Milton...
>>>>
>>>>Readers are invited to post the PVs from their favourite engines to the CCC or
>>>>RGCC. The Adjudication committee minus Bruce Moreland will then make some sense
>>>>of it all. Adjudications are not scientific experiments unfortunately. Hopefully
>>>>with enough analysis pouring in, we can get a consensus.
>>>>--
>>>>Komputer Korner
>>>
>>>
>>>Why not use the simpler idea Chris suggested.  Get two operators to play the
>>>game out on ICC.  at what ever time control we deem appropriate...  ie 5 minutes
>>>per move or whatever.
>>
>>If this route is taken then the name "Correspence"
>
>Correspondence (Korrespondence in KK code)
>
>is null and void.
>>Why change the format in midstream?
>
>It would need a new name like the KKKKup (Kmixed Ktime Kontrols Kup :))
>>
>>
>>  That would resolve the games quicker than an involved
>>>adjudication discussion and leaves the programs to their own devices to win
>>>lose or draw.
>>
>>>I can run the KKup version of crafty since I saved it.  All we need is an
>>>operator for Rebel with some time... and the right rebel version...
>>>and hopefully on a P6/200 so we don't have to worry with handicapping of any
>>>kind (I would run with only one CPU)...
>
>Too bad an extension couldn't be granted here. Have KK snare two operators
>that would play on with the same time controls as the KKup stipulated.

That would be ideal but I don't think we should get in a situation where one Kup
is not finished and the other one is starting.
--
Kumputer Korner



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