Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 14:24:34 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 13:00:10, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >Hi Pete, > >>By the way , when it is about the missing ones : what happened to DarkThought , >>the second best Micro in 1999 ? > >Simple answer -- until August 3, 2000 the whole event was supposed >to be a uniform-platform PC championship in which "DarkThought" >on Alpha would not have been able to participate. > >Because the decision and plans for the PC-only championship in 2000 >were announced by the ICCA since mid-1999 (without any statements to >the contrary until very recently), we never planned to participate. > >Now imagine our surprise when the event was suddenly announced to be >a _regular_ WMCC. By August 3, it was just too late for us to do any >meaningful preparation ... :-( > >Obviously, we were not the only ones greatly surprised by the sudden >and completely unforeseen turn of events. If the list of participants >posted by Ed Schroeder is correct, then there are awfully few of them. >The previous championships always featured around 30 programs. > >The low number of participants is probably due to the fact that >information flow regarding this tournament was almost non-existent >until mid-July or so. > >=Ernst= > I read in CSS 1/2000 (in the DarkThought article), that a winboard engine might be expected (late?) this year. Is this true? Paul >P.S. >WWW pages of "DarkThought" at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.
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