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Subject: Re: CCT8 Update: New entrant

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:24:20 02/15/06

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On February 15, 2006 at 15:18:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 15, 2006 at 13:19:35, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2006 at 12:59:32, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On February 15, 2006 at 12:55:56, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello all,
>>>>
>>>>As promised by Vincent last week, he has entered Diep into CCT8.
>>
>>Nice but what hardware he will use? Any huge one or normal(fast).....?
>>
>> Also is this the most large number of participants for a CCT or there have been
>>and any larger....?
>> I remember very recently Hiarcs and an experimental Junior participating. Did
>>that happen in the last CCT or in another different than CCT tournament.....?
>>
>> Also 9 rounds with so many participants seems a bit short for me. Do you
>>consider increasing the number of rounds.....?
>>
>
>9 rounds is enough to find a clear 1st place for 512 opponents.  :)

This is correct if one program wins all the games but it will probably not
happen.

>
>By the time this event ends, the top group will have all played each other.

I am not sure of it.
In theory it is possible to have 10 winners with 6 out of 9 and in this case it
is clear that they need to beat weaker programs to get more than 4.5 out of 9 so
not every pair of winners played.

Uri



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