Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:25:15 05/17/04
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On May 17, 2004 at 05:13:03, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 17, 2004 at 00:32:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 15, 2004 at 03:15:20, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>>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. >>>> >>> >>>Make up your mind: Is crafty the menace that keeps everyone important from CCT >>>or is CCT the all-inclusive tournament ? >>> >>>I don't understand why I should be scared of meeting crafty at CCT, but not >>>scared of meeting it at WCCC. Crafty's been there in previous WCCC most of the >>>time. >> >>I remember 1996/1997. And maybe one other event. That's 3 out of 10 maybe... >> >>I don't believe the "scared" stuff. I'm not "scared" to play anybody. Heck, I >>played Deep Thought, Belle, chess 4.x... That was part of the process. I doubt >>any commercial programmer would be "scared". "worried" might well apply as >>there are serious hardware platforms that can serve like the old Colt .45 >>revolver of the wild-wild west. Often called "the great equalizer". :) >> >>I don't attend for simple reasons. >> >>1. Too expensive to travel to Europe every year. If it were in NA every other >>year as the charter once demanded, I could at least make those as I always did >>in the past, and occasionally make the ones in Europe. >> >>2. Too long. For the first 25 years these events were 5 rounds and 4 days >>long. Now they stretch to two weeks. My only choice would be to make that a >>family vacation, and it would have to be scheduled during two breaks that might >>possibly be long enough for me to attend. But I don't see the ICCA (or anyone) >>trying to work around one participant's schedule, it doesn't make much sense. >>It would be easier to just shorten the event. Worst case could be 5 days, 2 >>rounds per day, although that still turns into a week with travel days required >>for international travel. >> >>3. Getting a local operator is a non-optimal solution. I can't do any book >>updates. > >I do not understand why you cannot do it. >What is the problem to tell the operator to do the exact things that you could >do in case of going to Israel? > >Cannot you talk with the operator by email or by telephone during the >tournament? > >Uri Telephone really doesn't help. Can I dictate a couple of hundred chess moves over the phone with any reliability? Probably not. At the 1996 WMCCC event Crafty played in, we could not get _any_ information about the pairings, the results of each round. I mean _nothing_. Ditto at the 1997 WMCCC in Paris. No internet access there or anything. That is not always the case, but it is the case often enough to make it a problem... I have a pretty long "tournament preparation" document I wrote up for operators of Crafty in the past. But it can't cover everything. Particularly trying to update the book if something goes wrong...
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