Author: Madhavan
Date: 23:52:08 08/09/05
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On August 09, 2005 at 18:57:15, Tord Romstad wrote: >On August 09, 2005 at 17:58:58, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >>IS this the same one being held in Iceland? > >No. The Chess960 tournament is played in Mainz, and takes place >before the tournament in Reykjavík. The two tournaments are very >different. > >The WCCC in Reykjavík is the classic world computer chess >championship which we all know. Organised by the ICGA, slow time >controls, programs choose their own openings, takes a lot of time >(a week or so?), expensive to participate in. For economical reasons, >few amateurs participate. > >The FRC championship is arranged for the first time this year, and >is an entirely different sort of tournament. No relation to the ICGA, >fast time controls, only two days of playing, random opening >positions, economically attractive because the organisers pay >the hotel expenses for the participants. Of the 19 participants, >only 2 (Shredder and Sjeng) are professional. What are the final[or preliminary participants list for Mainz? List is also playing there?Professional and Amateur are not the concept to be introduced. 19 FRC???What are they?So,many authors began introducing FRC,started implementing FRC codes? What are the time control?fast?Blitz of 10 minutes I guess. is it a round robin event?I prefer Round robin to Swiss,because round robin gives accurate results and clear winner of all programs >Tord
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