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Subject: Re: WMCC in Canada? Great!

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 05:58:40 08/24/00

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>>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.
>
>Sounds like a decent idea to me

Yes that actually sounds like a great idea. Of course in a tournament of that
type, hardware could not be a factor, as no one would really know what the
"other side of the pond" would be using.

And btw, we actually do speak english up in Canada, and just last week, we got
running water :)



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