Author: Andy McFarland
Date: 16:58:26 11/14/99
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On November 13, 1999 at 18:39:07, Peter Kappler wrote: Some clarifications, most of the original post is deleted. > >It seems likely that we can get ICC to promote this event. Peter McKenzie and I >had a conversation with an ICC admin this morning - he's interested in this >idea. ICC would probably want to call it the "ICC Computer Championship", which >seems appropriate. I mentioned "ICC Computer Championship" as a title, only to say that would not be appropriate if GMs were invited as well. Unless ICC puts up prizes and does a lot of promotion, the title should be picked in the discussion here. The level of promotion will depend a lot on which programs play, and if ICC has a definite schedule several days before the event. > ICC could also probably supply one or two admins to act as >tournament directors. It's possible that we could use one of the automated ICC >"tomato" bots to generate pairings, but I'm not sure how we'd deal with first >round seedings... > I checked, the ICC tomato program is designed for tournaments played in one session. The main reason to use tomato was to generate pairings, have an easy way for operators and observers to know the pairings, standings and games in progress. Someone will need to generate the pairings and standings. They could enter the information in the finger notes of an ICC account, or I could post it as an ICC help file. The tournament director does not need to be an ICC admin, but we can probably get one to volunteer. The main duty of the ICC admin is to make announcements of the games, and to keep the kibs in order. >Another question is when should event should take place? I don't have strong >feelings about this, except that I think we need to allow enough time for people >to free up two weekends, plus it would be nice to give time for word to spread >about the tournament. Finally, many of us would want time to prepare for such an >event. My feeling is that it shouldn't take place before the end of December. >Christmas Day and New Years Day both fall on a Saturday this year - those >weekends are probably out of the question. The ICC admin I spoke with said he >would prefer not to have this coincide with the Wijk aan Zee super-GM >tournament, which he thought was sometime in January. > >The timing of the event isn't too important to me, except that I wouldn't want >to rush it. What do others think? Weekends of December 4, 11, and 18 are possible. But that means we need to get organized now. Hastings is January 4-12. Wijk aan Zee is January 14-30. I expect to broadcast both on ICC, so I won't be available for all of the computer games. We should be able to get other admins to help. I have no problem with scheduling the computer tourney during either event. Andy (Zek on ICC)
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