Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 14:43:33 12/09/98
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As one of the organizers I would like to add some comments to all, what was said here to "our tournament": First of all: The finest thing at such a tournament is to have fun!! Peter is totally right. It's just a hobby and this will it be forwever - not only for me. Second: Marcus is right, when he is very ambitious to explain, that ALL participants try to set as much energy in their programs to increase their strength. Mostly all of them are experts - no doupts possible! But as experts most of them didn't change settings. There were two reasons for that. Some programs came to me for the tournament only a few days before it. So nobody could tune his program. Second is, that some operators get their program for the first time in the tourament hall. So who knows, which settings for the CM 6000 are the best? One of the operators (P233 MMX) experimented with Pilz-Settings and more Selectivity because he had good results with them in the CM 5000. His program played well, but this was (a little bit) luck, wasn't it. It could have lead to a total disappointment. Of course: Hardware brings a big advantage. If your machine is three times faster, you plays with 60, 80 or even 100 points more than the opponent. But at seven (fourteen) rounds, you will not found significant differences, even against different opponents. The only effect is, that statistical your program come every second or third move one play deeper ... So it plays 14.Be2 at play 11 with 0,14 than at play 10 with 0,15, but in this game, this move has nothing to do with the final result. So there is totally no matter, if some machines have 300 MHz and others have 400. Ok, Their should be a difference between 60 MHz and the ten-times faster-machine of Junior; but neverless the result was a draw. Junior could have had a 4000 MHz-clock and wouldn't have won. Bad luck. The main reason for such a tournament is for me to meet some friends by doing our hobby. These disccusions every year after the tournament, why program X played so weak against program Y, are not only booring and senseless, they are laying besides the things: In this field with nearly 10 equal programs, neverless there must be one program, which coveres the tenth place. Nobody can spoil this! When we would have played a second tournament one week later, I am sure, Rebel 10 would not have won, but in this tournament it was at least one class stronger than the others. So we will find together in march 1999 and we will play a new tournament, which will force senseless discussions about settings or levels again. Karsten
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