Author: Peter Berger
Date: 13:42:09 05/03/05
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On May 03, 2005 at 14:29:18, Steven Edwards wrote: >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? One of the main purposes of these events besides the competition, as far as I understand, is to encourage active programmers to exchange fresh ideas on chessprogramming. So programmers are strongly encouraged to be present. Imagine you travelled to Iceland yourself to compete with your Symbolic toolkit at the world championship. Your first game is against Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's mighty Shredder engine, and you are strongly looking forward to meeting him. When you arrive, you discover he's not there at all. Instead you meet 13-year-old Sigmar Chessfanson, a local kid hired by the organizers. He has trained hard, and is competent to enter the moves into the Shredder GUI like a pro. I can still imagine some slight disappointment on your side. This would be a sensible reason to make it tough for people to participate via proxy. Peter > >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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