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Subject: Re: CCT Blitz? Some suggestions....

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 21:46:58 02/14/05

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On February 14, 2005 at 23:49:17, Charles Roberson wrote:

>
>  Sounds like fun to me. But, I have a suggestion. Make it 9 round ddr and 10 0
> as you have suggested. But, do it over 2 days. That way nobody stays up ALL
> night. Each day would last less than 3 hours. If it were to start at 5am PST
>and end at 8am PST, I think that would 4 pm to 7 pm Israel time. This should
>also be a reasonable time for the Aussies as well????
>
>    With a much shorter time each day, it could be scheduled to be reasonable
>  for all. Since, there aren't any chess program authors in Hawaii (that I am
>  aware of) and the Pacific ocean is so wide, we have a nice buffer zone of
>  several hours.
>
>   We could still have commentary, but just on one or two games per round. Many
>have speculated that blitz is what it will take to make chess a bigger spectator
>event. And spectators like commentary.
>
>   Charles

All feedback will be taken into consideration. At this stage anything could
happen.

Peter



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