Author: James Robertson
Date: 10:01:35 02/15/00
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On February 15, 2000 at 02:14:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 15, 2000 at 02:00:12, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>On February 15, 2000 at 01:00:46, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>On February 14, 2000 at 16:54:57, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>> >>>>I'm thinking about trying to organize a tournament in the style of previous >>>>KKups (http://www.gambitsoft.com/turnier/kupold.htm explains, if you don't know >>>>what it is.). The number (and name) of programs will depend on how many >>>>volunteers there are to run that particular program, so I need to know how many >>>>people would be interested in participating in this, and what program(s) they >>>>could run. Other details will be worked out later. >>> >>>If some of the other amateur's join, I will join with Sjeng too. I can also >> >>Ideally, every program would be able to participate. The problem is getting >>enough operators for each program. Since the games will last so long (at least >>a couple months, surely), there will have to be as many operators for each >>program as the number of other programs competing, so that every game can be >>played at once. >> >>So far, it doesn't seem like there's too much interest, so it may not happen at >>all. :( Hopefully a bunch of people will want to participate, so I can get this >>going. The results won't mean too much, since there's only one game for each >>program against each other program, but it will still be fun and interesting. > >I thought about doing it last year. I think if you spell out exactly what you >intend, and how it is to be operated, it might gather more interest. > >KKUP tournaments were equalized so that the hardware was approximately equal. > >In essense, it is just a postal chess game. You might simply advertize on one >of the postal chess groups. I'll bet you would get a lot of takers. > >It would also be interesting if some humans entered. You have a lot of people working on CAP, no? Well just slip your CAPpers EPD positions from certain games and tell them to have x program search it. They won't even know they're actually playing a game in the new tournament. :)) James
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