Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:28:33 11/17/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 12:45:58, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Well, it is rapidly becoming that CCT time of year. > >I just wanted to get a little bit of discussion going on who is going to attend, >format, potential organizers, etc. I emailed Volker Richey, who did an >excellent job the last two years, but I haven't heard back from him. It is >possible I used the wrong email (cct@vrichey.de), so if anyone knows a better >one please speak up. > >Some thoughts: > >1. Timecontrol. Last we had some problems with some _long_ games (Movei the >Ironman comes to mind), and the first night ended up being pretty late for the >guys in Europe. Perhaps it is better to to just have a Game/60 timecontrol? I >like to have increments myself, but at the same time it is nice to know that all >games _will_ be finished by time X. I'm sort of on the fence here. > >2. Tiebreaks. Some would call this a bit of sour grapes, but I don't like the >idea of a slow tournament being decided by a few blitz games. I would much >prefer a buchholz or SB ranking, or even just having a shared first place. This >isn't a world championship, so there is no reason we can't make as many people >happy as possible :) I've been involved in the tie-breaks multiple times now. I agree. Get rid of the blitz play-off. Let's just have co-champions. Without proper seeding, even the traditional tie-breaks are not so good. Or, have a playoff at the _same_ time control as the regular games, but only if there are two tied and not more. Then we could play two games to eliminate white-bias. > >3. Date. I have no problems with January myself. > >4. Participants. If we extrapolate linearly, there will be >60 participants >this CCT! Who is coming? > >5. Organizers. I'm certainly not going to do it :) Volker did an excellent job >last year, but it is matter of getting in touch with him. I think Steve Lim >talked about doing it last year as well. > >anthony
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