Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:29:32 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 11:50:17, Richard Pijl wrote: >> >> >>All the other participants were programmed with the advanced idea of automated >>play. The programmer's presence was not required. For instance, crafty plays >>in the weekly Grand Prix qualifier completely unattended. >> >> >>It's too bad DIEP was not programmed to play by itself. Then you could have >>participated in both events through the wonders of technology. >> >> >>Oh well. Perhaps those advanced features will grace the next version of DIEP. >> >> > >You do not seem to grasp the idea behind participating in a tournament. > >It is not about playing games. >It is not about winning prizes. >It is not about pleasing spectators > >It is about meeting the other participants. That is the idea behind a "conference". It is possible to do a 2-3 day chess conference, but play the actual games automatically either in parallel with the conference or before/after... >It is about fair competition with minimized fraud possibilities. (hitting the >'move-now' button or changing engine setting mid-game is easy when you can't >been seen by your opponent) It is easy when you _can_ be seen. It has happened many times in the past. Oh yes. It would be harder to resign a won or drawn position because you think that is the "right result" if things are automated. No operator time penalties for slow vs fast typing. No time funny-business. No forgetting to hit the chess clock. No move input errors. Etc... > >I've participated in the last two CCT-tournaments. I also join in the grand-prix >cycle on ICC. I think it is a nice way of organizing a tournament. But chat >online is limited, and channel 64 is (during CCT) usually spammed by nitwits. >I've also participated in 3 CSVN tournaments, 2 Dutch championships and one >tournament in Paderborn, all requiring presence of the author/operator. I also >visited (as a spectator) Maastricht 2002 twice, and Paderborn 2003. I had to >skip Graz 2003 because of my daughters birthday that was during the tournament. >If I have to chose between participating in an on-site tournament and an on-line >tournament I'll choose the on-site tournament if my funds are sufficient. That is the point. Suppose you discover it will cost $3000 US to attend. Will that change things? It does for me... >There you'll have the possibility of really meet all the heroes of computer >chess, drink a beer with them and have dinner with them. I don't see that >happening in an online tournament. Looks like you won't see it happening much longer. Last WCCC = 16. This one has 10 so far. I can compute the slope of the linear function used to approximate rate of change.... > >Richard.
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