Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 18:22:50 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 20:44:48, Christophe Theron wrote: >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... :) > Oh don't worry about crafty on a handheld. Someone would port it. It wouldn't even do bad. Crafty plays blitz levels for many years now. > Christophe
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