On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Zach Wegner wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Erik van der Werf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's a pretty good deal!!!
http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php?
topic_view=threads&p=193819&t=21591
Why isn't there any sponsoring like this for the other tournaments?
Erik
They pretty much have to. The ICGA has achieved a rather lousy
reputation in the chess community, and very few participants are
showing up nowadays (11 on the list now). Compare that to the online
tournaments, which always have around 30 or more participants.
Personally I'd like to go and meet some other programmers, but there
are so few. And even after the subsidies it would still be very
expensive...
In my opinion, the size of the ICGA World Computer Chess Championship
event is irrelevant. More importantly, it has the prestige to
consistently draw the top candidate programs. This year, past
champions Rybka, Junior, Shredder, and HIARCS will be competing for
the title. (The author of Zappa no longer develops his program, so
I'm not surprised he dropped out. I don't know why Fritz never
attends. Hydra would also be an interesting participant as one of the
last custom chess supercomputers.)
By contrast, the ICGA Go events never get top candidate program
participation, and before this year have had smaller turnouts than
the chess event. Since the expiration of the Ing Prize, the last
event of any kind which had such participation was the 2003 Gifu
Challenge (KCC Igo, Haruka, Go++, Goemate, Many Faces, GNU Go, Go
Intellect, Aya, Katsunari). The size of this year's event is
encouraging, but where are Go++, Haruka, HandTalk, and GNU Go? And
what ever happened to Wulu and GoAhead?
Ian
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