Author: David Amatulli
Date: 02:20:14 04/01/05
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On March 31, 2005 at 23:07:44, Mark R. Anderson wrote: >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. > I wouldnt call that the Ultimate CC tourny, that's just a invite only tournament I want to see something big, there's alot of opinions on who or what or who plus what can produce great won games, Let's put some money where are mouths are build up a pot and battle it out. Also what would be nice to see would be chess teams or schools enter the tournament and work out there games together 100,000 is a nice incentive for a chess team to get involved.
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