Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 02:32:05 08/25/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 03:34:34, Mark Ryan wrote:
>On August 24, 2000 at 08:58:40, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>>>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 :)
>
>It's "Canajun", eh. And we only speak it in some parts of Canada. I'm not sure
>what they speak in Newfoundland, but in rural Quebec they speak "le joual",
>which is certainly not English, and it could not be French because I can speak
>French and I cannot understand a word of "le joual".
>Have a nice day, eh.
>Mark
If Juliet Powel speaks "le joual", then I swear I'm going to spend the next 8
months learning this thing. :)
Oops... I'm stupid. She speaks english and french fluently. No need to learn a
new language.
Hey Juliet, I'm coming!
Christophe :)
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