Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 08:55:36 12/12/04
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On December 12, 2004 at 10:45:16, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On December 12, 2004 at 07:06:35, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On December 12, 2004 at 01:07:05, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>Dates: >>February 12&13 2004 >>or >>March 12&13 2004 >> >>Site: >>The Internet Chess Club (as always) >> >>Rounds: >>9 round swiss. >> >>Time controls: >> >>50 + 3 >> >>All games to be played in one weekend. 5 games on day 1, 4 on day two. >> >>In the event of a tie situation: >> >>There will be co-winners awarded. >> >>1. No manually operated programs, and all programs must kibitz their evaluation, >>and book moves/TB hits if possible. Providing as much information as possible >>for the viewers and participants is key here. It should also be noted that 1-3 >>lines of text is sufficient. No need to scroll out an entire page :) >> >>2. In the event of a disconnection, the party will be given 5 minutes to return >>to complete the game and no more than 3 disconnections per game will be allowed. >>On the third time, the game will be a forfeit. >> >>3. Only the author or an approved operator (Author must email the TD in such >>case to grant approval). There will be no clones allowed. >> >>4. Participants can use any hardware they can bring. Participants choosing to >>use remotely located hardware are recommended to have a suitable back up >>solution in the event there is an uncorrectable malfunction. >> >>5. No entries will be accepted 2 days prior to the start date of the tournament. >>This is to ensure that advertising, websites, and any promotional tools are >>accurate at start time. This is also to ensure partitipants have enough time to >>test their program on the ICC servers to ensure it is able to play. >>5a. In the event that there is a late withdrawl or uneven amounts of players, >>the TD can substitute a program in place of the departing entrant to keep the >>numbered entries the same. And to avoid a bye round. >> >>Peter > >Looks great to me! I prefer the February date, as March is getting a bit out of >the usual time frame for CCT. > >One question that you haven't answered: how do you propose to seed the programs? > >anthony To seed the programs I proposed the idea of taking the results from the last 3 CCT's, averaging the placings and starting from there. Of course there will be some programs that end up tying for the same spot, so the placing would go to the program that entered the CCT's first dating back to the very first one. I think it is an easy, and fair way of seeding the programs Peter
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