Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:20:35 08/23/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 13:41:21, Christophe Theron wrote: >On August 23, 2000 at 09:34:02, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>>Well it turns out to be an expensive little social gathering for most people no >>>matter where it's held. The participation of the programs is more important to >>>me of course but I'm just a "fan". >>>Jim >> >>Yes I agree, the programs are the most important thing, as I don't think you can >>have a World Computer Chess Championship without the computers and programs. >>That would be pointless.Hhehe >> >>On the other hand I would love to get together 8-10 people, and try to make next >>year's tournament State side, or even in Canada, where internet is the cheapest >>in the world. We have many locations, and I would love to help set one up. If >>$50,000 would get it up and running, I am sure I could find a sponsor to help >>with this. >> >>In fact, the owners of West Edmonton Mall here is Edmonton Albert Canada, have a >>son named Alanzo, who is a HUGE computer chess fan. We often get together and >>match our computers together. Seeing how he has the better computer ( Quad >>system ), I usually lose badly. I am sure we could have the tournament in the >>Hotel ( Has HUGE function rooms, and is internet ready, as I asked last night ), >>and have great coverage. There is also the Hotel MacDonald, one of the best >>hotels in Canada, that is great and internet ready ( I know this as I worked >>there as a purchaser ). Many options, and sponsorship would not be a terribly >>big deal I wouldn't think. > > > >If you manage to organize this, you can count me and my program Chess Tiger in. >Tell Alanzo I would be glad to play against his Quad! > > > > Christophe I'm sure that USA Chess programers would prefer to go to Canada than to have yet another tournament in Europe. And to be honest, there is no large difference between Canada and our northern states anyhow, and they sort of speak English up there too. I wonder how many European Chess programmers would come to this side of the big pond. It might be interesting sometime to have 2 tournament locations synchronized together, one in Europe, and one on the American continent, and when you needed to play somebody on the same side of the pond as you, you'd just do it face to face the way it's always been done, and when you had to play a program from the other side of the pond, you'd do it over a (dependable!) Chess server. Just a thought. I don't know if it's really possible or desirable. Pete
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