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Subject: Re: ICGA WCCC in Reykjavik: Playing via proxy

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 11:29:18 05/03/05

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On May 03, 2005 at 14:08:18, Peter Berger wrote:
>On May 03, 2005 at 12:39:12, Steven Edwards wrote:

>>The General Rules of the 2005 ICGA WCCC seem to allow remote participation via
>>the Internet (at twice the entry fee) with the organizers providing an operator.
>
>I think this is a wrong assumption. If you play by proxy you have to pay twice
>the entry fee, but this doesn't automatically mean that the organizers provide
>an operator. I don't know if they do, but there is nothing written about it.

If you are right, then why the fee doubling?

Surely there can be found some Icelander university student chess fan willing to
help with operating a program.  Maybe the extra portion of the fee would go to
him/her.

>> For an amateur entrant, that's 50 Euro plus a membership in the ICGA (I let
>>mine lapse a few years ago).
>>
>>Symbolic's toolkit is not strong enough on my available hardware to have much
>>chance to place in the upper half of the field, although it would be interesting
>>to see some of the games.  It may very well be a different story for the next
>>WCCC in 2008 as surely (!) the cognitive search will be completed by then.
>
>The next WCCC is scheduled for 2006. It's a yearly event now.

Uh oh.  How can I be expected to work under such pressure?  :-)



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