Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:59:12 01/07/05
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On January 07, 2005 at 17:39:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 06, 2005 at 20:23:12, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On January 06, 2005 at 19:00:41, enrico carrisco wrote: >> >>>Hiarcs -- We are undecided at this time. (Hint: It would be an easier decision >>>to make if other commercials wanted to come out and play.) :) >> >>Maybe the others are thinking the same thing. You should lead the way! :) > >I imagine that the pros thought the first crafty win was a fluke. >The past two CCT's were won by amateur programs (IIRC). > >I am guessing we have seen the last of the professional entries in the contest. > >Keeping all the WMCCCs in Europe has effectively kept programs like Ferret and >Crafty away. Crafty played in the last WCCC and the commercial had no problem with it. > >Beating up the pros has done the same for the online contest. Why will they >come and compete if they think that they might lose to a freeware program? >It won't do anything positive for sales and it might do something negative (if >-- for instance -- Mark Weeks got hold of it.). I think that the commercial are not afraid of playing. The reason that they do not play is simply that the tournament is not more important than other tournaments like WBEC. Shredder7.04 is participating and winning. Junior and Fritz do not participate and the reason is not that they are afraid to lose. Now they can participate by supporting winboard or UCI. They go to WCCC only because a tournament with human operators is simply more important for the media relative to tournament that is played automatically in the internet. Uri
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