CCT 12: Shredder by Stefan Meyer Kahlen has entered

[Peter Skinner]

http://www.cctchess.com

[Harvey Williamson]

Great News1

Looks like you got a few of the Flags wrong on the participants page. You have Sjeng as British - should be Belgian. You also have Komodo as British - Is don British?

[Peter Skinner]

Great News1

Looks like you got a few of the Flags wrong on the participants page. You have Sjeng as British - should be Belgian. You also have Komodo as British - Is don British?

Both Sjeng and Komodo stated they were "UK" on their registration form.

[garybelton]

This is probably due to the registration form, here is the list of questions and what I entered for Komodo:

Full name: Gary Belton
Country of Origin: UK
FICS Handle: GaryBelton
Requested Handle: Komodo
Engine name: Komodo
Programmer: Don Dailey and GM Larry Kaufman
Hardware: Intel Q6600 @ 3.6
Software: Windows 7 + Winboard + Polyglot + Komodo
Variant supported: Chess
Manual or Automatic operation: Automatic
Login times: Varied due to geological location
Estimated rating: (Rating based on CCRL or other known list) 3000
Main time control and variant: Chess only.
Reason for having a computer account: To participate in the CCT chess events, and to test the engine with interface to eliminate problems during such events.

However, if you make a change to the order of questions you get a different answer:

Full name: Gary Belton
FICS Handle: GaryBelton
Requested Handle: Komodo
Engine name: Komodo
Country of Origin: USA
Programmer: Don Dailey and GM Larry Kaufman
Hardware: Intel Q6600 @ 3.6
Software: Windows 7 + Winboard + Polyglot + Komodo
Variant supported: Chess
Manual or Automatic operation: Automatic
Login times: Varied due to geological location
Estimated rating: (Rating based on CCRL or other known list) 3000
Main time control and variant: Chess only.
Reason for having a computer account: To participate in the CCT chess events, and to test the engine with interface to eliminate problems during such events.

[swami]

Good to see Shredder in here!

No Stockfish yet?

Could somebody offer to operate for the Stockfish? I don't have more updated hardware. I will ask Sherif Khater and see if he'd be available.

[Tord Romstad]

Good to see Shredder in here!

No Stockfish yet?

Could somebody offer to operate for the Stockfish? I don't have more updated hardware. I will ask Sherif Khater and see if he'd be available.

An operator isn't enough -- one of the authors have to be present, too. The rules for operators have been made more strict in this edition of the CCT. From the tournament rules:

2a. Operators will only be allowed under the following conditions:

2a1. The author must be online during the tournament to participate in discussions in channel 64, and in the event there is an issue with their program they can provide real time support to their operator.

I definitely don't want to be there, and although I haven't asked, I guess that Joona and Marco feel the same way. It's therefore highly unlikely that Stockfish will participate.

[Will Singleton]

I definitely don't want to be there, and although I haven't asked, I guess that Joona and Marco feel the same way. It's therefore highly unlikely that Stockfish will participate.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm curious, what is it about the tournament that puts you off? And why would your fellow authors feel the same way?

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[Tord Romstad]

I definitely don't want to be there, and although I haven't asked, I guess that Joona and Marco feel the same way. It's therefore highly unlikely that Stockfish will participate.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm curious, what is it about the tournament that puts you off?

There's nothing that puts me off, really -- I just don't care enough about online tournaments to want to spend many hours watching and operating. I am not very attracted to the competitive side of computer chess; tournaments to me are mostly social events. And from a social point of view, big online tournaments are just dull.

Don't get me wrong: I think the CCT is an event of great importance to the community, and Peter does a tremendous job in organizing. It's just not for me.

And why would your fellow authors feel the same way?

I think they are generally less interested in tournaments than I am.

Tord

[garybelton]

Seeing Tord's append below I am checking with Don to see if he can be online for CCT12. I'm not sure why I didn't notice this new rule of the programmer needing to be online, does that mean that Sjeng cannot play? I guess GCP could login to FICS from the slopes ... ?

[Zatarra]

Its a shame rybka avoids playing in cct this year. played in all of them up to this one too (since it was around).