Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:57:27 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 21:44:56, Madhavan wrote: >On August 14, 2005 at 21:26:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 14, 2005 at 19:40:27, Darrel Briley wrote: >> >>>On August 14, 2005 at 17:59:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On August 14, 2005 at 16:47:43, Darrel Briley wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 14, 2005 at 15:22:43, Graham Banks wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Best wishes for the remaining games. It would be really good for this to be the >>>>>>best Crafty ever! Fingers and toes crossed! >>>>>> >>>>>>Graham. >>>>> >>>>>1.5 with two blacks vs. Shredder and Junior. Impressive indeed. >>>>>Congratulations Bob! >>>>> >>>>> DB >>>> >>>> >>>>We were white in round 1 against shredder... >>> >>>Oh. The "coverage" of the even so far has been somewhat confused. The pgn file >>>I have shows Crafty as black. >>> >>> DB >> >>I think I was wrong. I checked the logs and apparently Crafty was black in both >>round 1 and round 2. Makes one ask how that is possible? I have TD'd several >>events, and I have _never_ seen this happen. Not ever. Not over the first two >>rounds... >> >>Something is broken... > >Oh Bob,You don't spectate Crafty's games at ICC or Playchess?Doesn't chessbase >offer you free membership? > >Congrats to you for getting the fantastic result of 1.5/2 as black against the >top 2 programs > >:) I didn't know the first round would be on ICC, if it was. I was just watching Crafty's log file to see what was happening, and didn't really think about the color at the time. Until several people commented on "how did you get black twice against the top two seeds in the tournament?" After seeing that asked enough, I decided that something was amiss and I had missed an important detail. I was correct. :) I think these events are becoming (a) irrelevant. 10-12 programs, hardly any commercial programs, who cares after the CCT events with 30-50 programs entered? (b) useless due to incompetence. Remember the draw-nodraw-draw Jonny game last year and the utterly absurd TD decision? The pairings this year just add to that feeling of incompetence. (c) I suspect this might be my last such event. If they want to maintain such a high level of incompetence year after year, from publicity to providing up-to-date information about games, pairings, etc, then I may well let 'em be incompetent with out me... The only real suspense each year for these events is "what is going to be screwed up beyond all recognition this year?"
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