Author: Mark R. Anderson
Date: 20:07:44 03/31/05
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On March 31, 2005 at 23:04:35, Mark R. Anderson wrote: >On March 31, 2005 at 21:09:27, David Amatulli wrote: > >> What I would like to see one day and even participate in would be a BIG >>corresponance tourny. No ratings, No consultaion rules, just a straight up >>winner takes all tournament. I would be interested in seeing who comes out on >>top, would it be the grandmaster with no consultation help (programs, friends, >>etc..) would it be the straight program no human intervention at all, or would >>it be the 1400 rated kid in his basement with all the top programs, books, >>databases, and whatever else he can use to come up with the moves, hell why not >>try the magic eight ball while at it. Entrance fee could be something like $100 >>per player 99% returned to the 1st place player, 1% to tournament director. >>Winner takes all. Get a few hundred opponents thats a nice take home. >> >> >>Also I would like to see.... With the rash of texas hold em no limit poker here >>in the states on T.V. especially with the celebrity tournaments. I would like to >>see 9 of the top grandmasters of chess sit down a play a texas hold em tourny. >>It would be very interesting seeing there bluffing techniques. Who would you >>like to see play at the table, past or present greats. I would have loved to see >>Tal play poker I bet he would be an animal. >> >>-Dave > >Dave, > >I have played in correspondence tournaments (before email and computers when it >was postal) and know that it is time-consuming. What you describe sounds like a >swiss-system tournament. (How else would you have a tournament with hundreds of >people?) However, this does not work in correspondence chess, where you have to >play your games simultaneously (like a round robin) ... otherwise, it takes >forever and a day and a half. To have a swiss system correspondence tourney >with hundreds of players would take perhaps 10 years or more. > >Mark Dave, An addendum to my message ... there WAS a correspondence tournament which finished recently that could easily be called the "Ultimate Correspondence Tournament." In it, ALL NINE living World Correspondence Chess Champions competed in a round-robin. Cool, huh? For details, see this month's Chess Life. Mark
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