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Subject: Re: New list WCCC participants and Free Hardware

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 03:13:00 05/29/04

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On May 29, 2004 at 05:55:17, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 29, 2004 at 05:45:17, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2004 at 20:36:21, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>
>>>Of course Crafty has a chance to win.  Heck, DanChess might walk away with the
>>>title :)
>>
>>DanChess isn't likely to walk away with the title anymore, as its author seems
>>to have taken it out of the tournament, unless it has just been forgotten with
>>the last update of the webpage.
>>
>>I hope some more amateurs will take part and plan to sign up late, so that there
>>will be a bigger field of competitors.
>>
>>Peter
>
>As far as I know the author cannot come to Israel to operate Danchess so the
>only way for Danchess to participate is if some operator is going to volunteer
>for it.
>
>I was asked to do it but refused and said that as a programmer of one program
>there is no chance that I am going to operate another program and I guess that
>it is the same for all programmers or operators.
>
>Uri

Strange. I can understand the general policy of discouraging operators so that
more authors come, but to ask _you_ to operate another engine in the tournament
is really a strange solution.

Can't they just find any competent operator at whole Bar-Ilan University? It is
not rocket science after all.

Peter



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