Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:35:54 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 21:22:50, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>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.
I'm eagerly waiting for this. :)
Christophe
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