Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 17:47:37 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 20:03:35, Matthew Hull wrote: >On May 14, 2004 at 18:26:54, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On May 14, 2004 at 12:32:26, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>On May 14, 2004 at 12:16:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On May 13, 2004 at 20:17:42, Russell Reagan wrote: >>>> >>>>>Not anyone can play. Only people who have several thousand dollars and two >>>weeks >>to burn can play. I don't know many people in that situation, or at >>>least if >>they are in that situation and participated, the locks would be >>>changed when >>they returned home from the trip :) >>>> >>>>FYI, travel costs and hardware are sponsored by the organisation. >>> >>>No, they are not. $2000 dollars is not sponsored by the organization, neither >>>the hotel, nor the paid time off for two weeks. The entire situation is >>>calculated to discourage American participation. The physical format is >>>calculated to permit cheating, as was done with the illeagal throwing of a >>>drawn game to the eventual "winner". It is a corrupt establishment designed to >>>cater to European interests, and to snub Americans. >>>It is therefore an irrelevant contest, just like the FIDE World Championship is >>>completely irrelevant. >>>:) >>> >>>CCT is now the venue for true WORLD comptetition, instead of just European >>>competition. >>> >> >>No it's not. I will come to CCT to experiment, if I come at all. Others don't >>bother to show up, and why should they ? > > >Right, what commercial product wants to get beat by crafty? It's bad for >marketing to loose to the likes of Zappa and bodo. Then people like Vincent and >GCP couldn't show up here slamming the professor. > >:) > > > >>It's not a major event. > > >Nonesense. 50 programs is a huge event. If quantity is the only parameter, then Leo's great winboard tournaments are superior to CCT. And especially since his tournaments are run on equal hardware, you get a very accurate estimate of each program's strength. Shredder and Fritz were not present in CCT. Junior played totally unprepared. And Hiarcs running on an average one processor hardware managed to score the same as Crafty on the fastest Opteron with 4 processors (or was it 8 processors?). Speaking for myself, Falcon ran on a P4 2.0GHz with a random generated book (created the night before the tournament, for the Chess Partner interface) which resulted in several lost positions from the book. >Much bigger than some expensive, >exclusive, back-yard barbecue at the ICGA. > >No. If they thought they could win, they would show up. Remember? ;) > >Americans don't show up in Europe because it's expensive. Commercial European >projects don't show up at the FREE, no-expense CCT because they are chicken. > > >> >>CCT is a bit like Biel: crowded and noisy, with a few good players. But don't >>mistake Biel for Wijk an Zee. > >Programs don't care how much noise there is. Just come and play. You can't >stand it if bodo competes with you? I thought the Championship was open to all? > Oh, only those who are well-off to afford $2000 travel. > >How inclusive. > >:) > >> >>Which reminds me that no major chess tournament takes place in the USA nowadays. >>All the major tournaments are in Europe, but I don't hear you saying that >>Kaidanov and Stripunsky are the world's best. > > >Many Nations have easy access to Europe. America is not easy or cheap for >Europeans to access. It's simple economics. > > > >> >>Amir
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