Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 09:16:56 02/26/05
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On February 26, 2005 at 07:48:49, Peter Berger wrote: >I am not sure if this is just meant to be an announcement of the tournament as >is or if you are looking for feedback. I'll assume the latter. This was the official announcement. > >If I understand the tournament setup correctly your main interest is to get >human masters involved. But I think as is it doesn't look too attractive. To >rise the prize fond you need 50 paying participants as a start - is this >realistic? So are the prizes guaranteed - I would hate the idea that you end up >paying 1000$ out of your own pocket and maybe you are being too ambitious here. That is why I state that the prize fund is subject to change based on participation level. >I am also sceptical that you'll find many titled players interested in paying >the entry fee. This is something I forgot to add to the site. It was previously decided that titled players will not have to pay the entrance fee. I will correct this today. >Also while I can understand your reasons for not limitting program users, they >make the field very unattractive. You'll end up with like 10 Shredders and 10 >Fritzes - which human would be interested in taking part under these >circumstances? I spoke with several titled players on ICC regarding this, and honestly none seemed to care. With all the different settings and books used, most don't feel like they are playing 10 Shredder's or Fritz's. As one GM stated: "If you put any program on today's fastest computers, and I doubt anyone could tell whether it was Shredder or Chess Tiger. They are simply all that good." Peter
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