Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:35:55 06/22/99
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On June 21, 1999 at 14:25:14, Dan Homan wrote: >On June 20, 1999 at 22:38:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 20, 1999 at 01:50:15, Andy McFarland wrote: >> >>>Why not WCCC00? On the Internet ! >>> >>>Andy >> >> >>Danny Sleator (Darooha), Zek, myself, and a few others started a discussion >>on ICC for hosting what might be called the ICCC (Internet Computer Chess >>Championship) next year. No firm details as I think a good bit of discussion >>is needed. General feeling was "open hardware" since enforcing a uniform- >>platform event would be nearly impossible. Another probable scenario would >>be a Swiss with maybe 6-7 rounds, then the top 4 play a round robin or some >>such... but ideas are welcome... I'll post summaries here as they are >>available... and perhaps set up a few times on ICC where channel 64 will be >>used to discuss this... >> >>Bob > >I think that is a great idea! A 'title' might also attract some of the >big-iron and commerical programs which don't regularly play on ICC. Above >all, it would be fun. > >What kind of entrance requirements would there be? There are a lot of >amateur programs (mine included) which might like to play... would there >be a rating minimum or perhaps a qualifying round? Perhaps none of that would >be necessary with a Swiss tournament. > > - Dan When Andy/Danny/myself/others had this discussion the other night, the main thing we all agreed on was that we'd like the competetion to be 'open' with everyone able to participate, yet we want to exclude 'clones' of existing programs (ie crafty/gnu/tcb/comet/etc). Doing so will be a bit of a problem. But is probably necessary to make this worthwhile... And the winner _must_ be subject to some sort of scrutiny to be sure that he used an original program and not genius, or fritz or whatever...
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