Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:05:03 05/18/04
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On May 17, 2004 at 20:28:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 17, 2004 at 18:21:27, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On May 17, 2004 at 00:32:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 15, 2004 at 03:15:20, Amir Ban wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>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... >>> >> >>Say what ? I'm pretty sure I played against you in Maastricht 2001. I don't >>remember if I played you in London 2000, but you were there, operated by Graham >>Laight. > >The ones I remember are (a) Tom operating Crafty in Jakarta. Jason doing it in >Paris. Michel was a third operator... and Graham may have done a fourth that I >had forgotten about. That is for sure all of the events. And they were all >WMCCC events, never a WCCC... > > >> >> >>>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. Seems like the ICCA is not very big on having local network access to >>>make that doable. The _right_ person to operate Crafty is me. I know the >>>program. I know what kind of book lines it will do ok in and what to avoid. >>>Due to _lots_ of experience. I can't give that experience to an operator >>>although the three I have used did pretty well. >>> >> >>So use a remote connection and do the book updates just like you do for CCT. Or >>discover the wonder of email attachments. > >Right. How exactly would I have done that at the WMCCC in Jakarta? At the one >in Paris. _NO_ internet access. _NO_ email access. Jakarta was a black hole. >For Paris Thorsten used his cell phone to get us updates... We are discussing about the future and not about the past. The relevant questions is if Crafty can get internet access in the competition in Israel without big risk that the access is going to be broken(I remember internet problems with the access of Junior to the internet in the past in games against humans). Uri
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