Author: Marcus Kaestner
Date: 00:05:28 12/10/98
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On December 09, 1998 at 17:43:33, Karsten Bauermeister wrote: >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. you´re right >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. > you´re right >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 Karsten is totally right, there is nothing to comment and I think we should stop this fruitless discussion. MArcus
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