Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 18:55:33 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 19:58:26, Andy McFarland wrote: >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. Is it using all of the Swiss rules to make pairings? >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. Excellent. >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. 5 decembre here is Santa Claus end of decembre is the huge open Groningen tournament and the Spanish computer chess championship. I guess at every date we will find something. For a discussion group like CCC obviously mid decembre 1999 is short lived, and a tournament during christmas is like Werner says not smart either. Much better is end of Januari 2000. >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. Excellent, thanks for the generous offer! >Andy (Zek on ICC)
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