Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:39:18 02/14/05
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On February 14, 2005 at 06:51:33, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 13, 2005 at 23:58:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 13, 2005 at 22:29:52, mike schoonover wrote: >> >>>hi peter, >>>good job at cct7.thank you and zek for all that you did. >>>i was rather disapointed i could'nt run smarthink due >>>to technical issues,it would have been fun. >>>looking foward to cct8. >>>regards >>>mike >> >> >>I agree. Ignore the resident naysayer, complainer, whiner, world's foremost >>authority on everything, world champion chess programmer if it weren't for (a) >>his book; (b) his computer; (c) his opponents cooking his book; (d) his >>program bugs; (e) you fill in the current excuse of the day here. The event >>went pretty smoothly, although I think we need more discussion about _ZERO_ >>human intervention. Zero means ZERO, not almost-zero. > >One thing that may help is not allowing the computer to disconnect from ICC by >accident during the tournament when the computer is still connected to the >internet. > >There was almost no human intervention in movei games. >I say almost because in one game against zappa I closed the connection to ICC >when I did not mean to do it. > >I reconnected in a few seconds but movei lost more than a minute of pondering >time because when it reconnected it did not ponder and waited passively to >zappa's move(I do not think that losing pondering time changed the result >against zappa but it is still human intervention). > >Uri Not much you can do about that. I've had power failures in past CCT events that caused me to get logged off, etc...
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