Author: David Blackman
Date: 23:21:35 04/08/98
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On April 07, 1998 at 18:05:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I spoke with my wife about this. If you guys will open this tournament, >I will attend, contingent upon baby-sitter availability, travel costs, >and possible conflicts with WCCC scheduling (assuming this event takes >place). > >While there I promise to drink exclusively Australian beer, but under no >circumstances will I eat vegemite. > >bruce It's sad to have to say no to such enthusiasm, but we have to. It's also sad to miss out on meeting one of the top chess programmers. The trouble is, if we make it an open tournament, we would quite likely get entries from overseas professional chess programmers who would have money riding on the results. From what we've heard of some overseas tournaments, things can get pretty tense if the organisers make even a minor mistake, or if some of the more argumentative programmers think they have. This is the first time any of us have organised a tournament like this, so we want to avoid that kind of hassle. By restricting entries to Australia and possibly New Zealand, we hope to keep the tournament small enough and friendly enough that we can learn as we go. If things go well we will probably hold the event again in future, and perhaps it could be open to programmers world-wide once we have the experience to organise that with confidence. (I think the Dutch event went this way, Dutch only at first, but open later on.)
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