Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 06:13:55 11/03/97
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On November 02, 1997 at 13:37:14, Ingo Althofer wrote: >The WMCCC is finished, we have a new and worthy champion with Junior, >and most teams are already on their way homeward. > >In the beginning I was only an ordinary internet kibitz, but then >the circumstances ( failing internet connection of the tournament >hall ) and the idea of Thorsten Czub and Chris Whittington to bridge >this gap by information calls from Thorsten's handy afficionadoed also >me. I took over Chris' position to type things in the net, when he >left Oxford on Wednesday; and it was real fun for me to continue with >this job until today. > >Typically I am less active with my internet contributions ( normally >only a few postings per week ), and now got some impression how "Mr. >Internet" Bob Hyatt must feel with his dozens of postings per day. >But, probably he feels differently. :) > >After all my thanks go to Thorsten Czub ( he operated CSTal a n d >gave the phone calls ), Chris Whittington, Bob Hyatt ( for the cross- >tabling ), Mathias Feist ( collecting the game notations ), Jean-Chris >tophe Chazalette ( carrying disks through Paris to an Internet access) > for their enthusiastic collaboration! Thanks also to Steve Schwartz >for sponsoring the telephone calls, and to ICDChess for providing the >CCC Message Board! I will never forget this week. Ingo Althoefer. Yeah ! We done good as they say :) I was just astonished when I was there on day one that they couldn't get any modem access organised. On the Sunday, I was on this board and talking to Thorsten on the phone at the same time, and thought, why not just post Thorsten's comments direct as he spoke them to CCC ? From this the whole thing was born - shows the power and attraction of the almost chat-room speed of CCC. Then still no modem access from the hall as the week went on. Interesting was that while the tourney was an almost black-hole with no information getting out other than by mobile; the competitors and organisers had no idea of what was going on over the net - no idea of the interest we'ld generated, and no idea of its consequences. It was a true two-way black hole, nothing coming in and nothing getting out. On the bright side; the icca wanted to have the programmers elect or nominate a programmer representative to 'advise' the icca board. Prior to the programmers meeting, the icca tried to persuade Chrilly Donninger of Nimzo/Hydra to accept this post, presumably as some kind of fait-accompli before we could then make an election. To his eternal credit, Chrilly refused, arguing that with so many threads of opinion amongst the programmers only a programmers committee would be able to do this task. Thus at the meeting, and with several programmers also arguing out loud for a committee, the icca were pretty much forced to go along with this. Thus we now have a committee of seven, with a chairman, which will 'advise' over various issues. Probably these will include machine specs, amateur/professional issues, tournament organisation, communications et al. BTW I'm a committee member. I'll do my best to ensure that the non-communication of this year is rectified for next time (if there is a next time). Anyway, a big thanks to Thorsten for being our contact in Paris. Ingo for taking over the CCC postings, Bob for the cross-table, Steve and the gang-of-ten for the CCC-board, and everybody else who did their bit that I don't know about. We showed, that as individuals, we really could get it together :) Chris Whittington > >PS: Please excuse, that I often used shortened program names instead of >the true ones ( for instance "Virtual" instead of "Virtual Chess II" ), >and also excuse the errors which were in my messages here and there. >Finally, have a look at the webpage at >webcom.com/aladin/chess/news.html. There you will find the following >sentence in Italian: "Junior ... disponibile ... come motore opzionale >di Fritz 5" which may be also understood by people who are not fluend in >Italian. ( For my taste Italian is the nicest of all languages. )
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