Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:15:29 10/30/97
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On October 30, 1997 at 14:00:35, Christophe Jolly wrote: >To "Gambit Site": > >>Text taken from the Gambit Site... > >>* The Paris stock exchange is well guarded. It is difficult to >>get in, so there are nearly no visitors to the Championship. > >This was annunced by ICCA. Visitors must have been registered before. >Chess tournaments don't interest many people. Not only in France, I >guess. >Do participants prefer ten persons watching and speaking behind them >during all the game? >Sure it would be a scandal too. I've been going to computer chess events for a long time. I've been to many events with an audience > 500 people watching and commenting, with an IM on the stage giving real-time analysis of each game as he walks by to study what is going on. It works well. > >>Even the owners of the two Paris chess shops do not seem >>interested to go there! > >It's a desert! > >>* The tournament room is beautiful, but the air is very sticky, > >Bring a spray of perfume, poor boy. > >> and the tournament results are written by hand on a small piece >> of paper which is stuck to the wall! As a consolation you can >> watch the ups and downs of the share prices from the gallery! > >Results are written by hand during the round, when each game is >finished. >So you have instant-information. Do you want a complete live report by >CNN? >When the round is over, all participants are given the complete list of >games in PGN format, >and the rank of programs, printed by a computer-printer, yes! However *I* am a program author that could not attend. And could not find *any* information until others decided to help by using personal communication devices. As opposed to Aegon where some games are (gasp) carried *live*... and *all* are updated after every round...
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