Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:08:04 07/08/04
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On July 08, 2004 at 07:28:28, Peter Berger wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 21:57:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Fix the black hole. Nothing is getting out in a timely manner except for >>participants logging in to CCC as they have time. That is almost criminal >>behavior for the "International COMPUTER games association" to not make the >>event available to a COMPUTER network... >> >>It just defies all logic. IBM did it for the DB match, in a way that _anybody_ >>could watch, unix or not. Why can't the ICGA do the same? Why hasn't it _done_ >>it already. It's not like this is a new and novel idea... > >There might be justified criticism (e.g. the Unix issue), that maybe can be done >better in later events. > >But I think the general level of criticism here is way out of bounds. Every >Windows user not behind a firewall he doesn't have administrator rights to ( so >him being at work I suppose ;) ), can just download the *free* Playchess server >interface and watch the games real time with free GM commentary by Boris >Alterman. > >It would be easier to understand the criticism if sometimes also the positive >sides were mentioned. > >Also the results and gamescores get updated in a timely manner (at least daily) >on the tournament webpage. Actually as an operator I don't have time to watch >the other games live, so I just watch them on playchess and on the webpage, same >as I would do if I were at home. > >Peter Let's take the blitz event. It was _over_. The web page did not have any round 4 results posted, nor round 5 pairings, even though the blitz event that was played _after_ round 4 was already over... That's the complaint everyone has. The results should be posted within minutes of a game ending, not within a day. Again, DB vs Kasparov is a model here. Games viewable by _anyone_. Without their having to install some proprietary interface that they might not be able to install on a public machine for example...
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