Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:25:13 08/22/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 00:32:54, James T. Walker wrote: >On August 22, 2000 at 23:46:53, Pete R. wrote: > >>I dunno, we're in the year 2000 and people have to fly to a meeting hall in a >>foreign country to have computers play chess against each other. Something >>wrong with that picture, hmmmm what could it be? Wait I think I'm getting >>something...I'm here and you're in Alabama, yet we're communicating without >>having to buy plane tickets...I'm sure I'll hit on it soon, it's right at the >>tip of my brain...I'll go play somebody from another country on ICC for a while >>and maybe it will come to me. And I wonder why it's so hard to get game info >>from the actual event site? I think those two things might be related somehow. > > >Hello Pete, >Well you almost said what was on your mind. I agree that in this day and age a >computer chess tournament should be easy to run over the internet. There is no >need to travel around the world to compete. The "Organizers" of this tournament >seem to be out to lunch. Maybe they think nobody is interested? >Jim It is nice to meet people in person. If you haven't gone to one of these, and you have a program, I recommend that you go. You'll meet some interesting people, and learn a lot. If things are done over the internet, there is less communication and less common experience. I'm happy to go, I just don't want it always to be me who pays for the 11-hour plane trip. bruce
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