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Subject: Re: How much interest would this generate?

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 16:09:04 03/31/00

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I know that any computer can fail any time, but I think the odds of my Notebook
failing during such an event are very low - Its worked fine for me, for more
than 2 years now...

Larry T.

On March 31, 2000 at 10:57:09, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 31, 2000 at 10:12:57, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:
>
>>If the first timid match is any kind of success, later matches can have better
>>Humans & computers, and sponsorship (or more of it)...
>>
>>Larry T.
>>
>
>I think you'll find the 200mhz laptop to be adaquate for this match, it could
>use a little more memory because you'll end up having to keep hashtables kind of
>low, but I still don't see a problem.
>
>I would probably be more worried about, is it rock-solid dependable, because if
>you set up this match, and I hope you do, then it would be very annoying for all
>involved if the laptop turned to toast in the middle of the match.
>
>I think it's a good thing that you're working on setting up a match like this
>that doesn't involve a high profile Grandmaster.  Good luck, allot of us will be
>interested.
>
>Pete



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