Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 01:53:25 11/05/97
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On November 05, 1997 at 03:37:02, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >> >>I heard some rumours: >> >>1. Geneva is possible >> >>2. They are trying the USA, but no offers yet >> >>3. Marsland would like Israel, because "he's not been there yet" >> >>Chris Whittington > > >Chris, > >Are you going to play in the next WMCCC, no matter where it will >be played!? Dunno ..... I'm now on the 'advisory' committee to the icca, so maybe some criticisms will get through to them. This year's tournament ran ok within the tournament hall, in so far as the games got played, nobody beat anybody up and so on. The icca went into overkill and shipped all their guys over. They don't travel economy or stay in 2 star hotels like most of the competitors; so the costs of club class returns from Canada and 4 star Paris hotels would have run to over $10,000. Quite a slice of the presumed $20,000 sponsorship. Of course, even $10,000 of professors were unable to plug in a modem, so there was no communication to the outside world. Outside the tournament hall, this was a disaster. Very difficult to get into Fort Knox. No PR, no results, no Internet, no nothing. I guess the question is: do we go with them again and try to get them to move on out of the Stone Age; or do we organise it ourselves. We could do the latter. I suspect the Tournament at Paderborn could be turned into a WMCCC. Peter Schreiner is in contact with several of the programmers (commercial ones) and the indications are that another organisation can be formed. What do you and Ed want to do ? >By the way, congratulations on the good result of CSTal. Thanks :) >I'm getting more and more interested in getting a copy..... :)) I think we're putting the Paris version onto the web site today or tomorrow. You'll need the rest of the CD to make it work ... Chris > >Best regards, Jeroen
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