Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 19:07:25 05/03/05
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On May 03, 2005 at 16:42:09, Peter Berger wrote: >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 Except it doesn't really make it tough. A program author can merely mean a contributor to the opening book or tester. The rule is easily ducked by those who find it convenient to do so. > >> >>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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