Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 01:20:15 05/04/05
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On May 03, 2005 at 21:09:58, Steven Edwards wrote: >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. > >I can see your point. However, if travel for an author is impractical due to >disability or some other uncontrolled circumstance then I'd hope the other >authors would understand. I know I would. Yes. The ICGA doesn't encourage play-by-proxy, though. You have to find an operator if you can't attend, but as you said, it's generally not that much of a problem to find a local computer chess fan/university student which is willing to do the work (perhaps for a small fee). I played this way in Israel and had no problems. -- GCP
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