Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:44:48 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 19:36:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On August 15, 2000 at 19:21:27, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2000 at 19:05:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>I just got back an email. I travel by train to London.
>>>This is not cheap. By boat is even more expensive bye the way.
>>>Hotel is expensive.
>>>
>>>All acceptible.
>>>
>>>But unacceptible is next email i got back:
>>>
>>>"Dear Vincent
>>>
>>>It is possible to hire a monitor but it is very expensive. Hire £130
>>>each plus delivery and collection (which might be a further £60).
>>>
>>>15" TFT Flat Screen.
>>>
>>>Let me know if this is what you want. Sorry about the price.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Tony"
>>>
>>>I can buy a new IIYAMA 17'' in any store for that price.
>>>
>>>Is it so hard to get a few monitors in a city that big?
>>
>>
>>
>>Here is what I did in 1998 when I went to Paris to participate to the French
>>Championship: I bought a second hand B&W monitor in a shop.
>>
>>I assume you can find stores specialized in second hand hardware in London (at
>>least we have such in every city in France).
>>
>>Buy the cheapest monitor you can find, then throw it away when the championship
>>is over. I'm sure you can find one for less than 40 euros.
>>
>>It would be sad to see Diep missing because of such a small technical problem.
>
>I hope you realize that the alexandra palace is in a very touristic city,
>probably first mile no computerstore near it, and then you need to carry
>it uphill for over a mile.
I have no idea what's around. But I thought that in "London" you can go from one
place to the other without too much trouble... If you can find a place to rent a
monitor, chances are you can find a place to buy an old one.
The B&W monitor I bought in french very really light and smaller than a color
VGA monitor, it was no problem to carry it.
>I already carry a dual 800 machine, from which i first get out 1 cpu,
>or run taskmanager all the time (either of both). I ordered short
>before the MSO world computer chess a dual 800, there was already
>a lot of discussion about allowance of a bit slower dual compared to
>the fast 1.15Ghz K7's, as right now money rules.
>6 days after i ordered it, i received the
>rules for the WMCC. Bummer, but not the biggest deal, i'm sure that
>hardware nowadays is not the most important factor anymore, but missing
>a quite crucial part is.
You should consider participating with you Nino handheld computer...
We should organize the "World Handheld Computer Chess Championship" (WHCCC). You
would come with your Nino, I would come with my Palm.
However I wonder which handheld could be used for Crafty... There are not many
64 bits handhelds with 10Gb hard disks around... :)
Christophe
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