Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 08:33:04 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 01:51:20, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >Our RK 2005 (90m+30s) was perhaps our last big tournament. >Due to lack of interest of the chess computer community I do >not think that we shall again have the spirit to ever start >such a long lasting tourney. In almost all cases very few >or even no comments - contrary to a lot of dumb and short >blitz tourneys that are published every day. It's indeed >somewhat a frustrating disappointment. We are going to >concentrate on testing new engines. This seems to be much >more interesting for all people. >Regards >Kurt The problem is your testing procedure. It doesn´t make much sense to play such big tournaments the way you do it. That way a tournament is often practically decided after only 50% of the games have been played and it gets boring. A better way might be to play first all games for the weakest engine (according to one of the available ratinglists) Then continue to play the remaining games for the second weakest engine etc... That way the outcome is not clear until the highest rated engine has played all its games and the tournament is more exciting. Michael
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