Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:42:45 10/23/97
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On October 23, 1997 at 07:34:54, Chris Whittington wrote: > >All those alpha fans will be pleased to know that Thorsten is now going >to bring a german p2 300, purchased at the last minute, to Paris WMCCC. > Or i will take it for myself and tell chris: This is your machine ! (and give him one of my K6/200 instead). I don't think he can find out about the difference ! I hope Ibrahim (the computer-dealer) will not sell us THE TURK ! On the other hand: this was the first chess computer.... > >Yet another point. AMD sponsored the tournament, produced a mass of kit; >and have now been upstaged by other manufacturors supplying machines at >even higher specs, and all for the cost of shipping 3 alphas to Paris >only. > >Seems unfair and unreasonable. hardware manufactors thinking of >sponsoring future events - think again. I still cannot believe how unprofessional AMD France handled the whole stuff. I am convinced there must have been a mistake! This event is important. It is absolutely designed to present FAST hardware support to many many computerchess sellers all over the world. The world of computerchess fans/freaks is focussed on this event. AND AMD is not supporting it good enough ?? Unbelievable !
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