Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 13:03:19 08/25/00
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Hi ERIQ, >All hail the new King !! Sorry to rain on your parade -- but "Crafty" never won any official ICCA amateur champion title. "Ferret" won the last official amateur title in Paris, October 1997. Thereafter, AFAIK, the ICCA decided to abandon the flood of different WMCC titles (amateur, professional, overall) in favour of awarding only one, namely the overall title. Hence, no amateur and professional WMCC titles were presented during the 1999 championship in Paderborn. Otherwise, "DarkThought" would have earned the amateur microcomputer title there -- bad luck for us ... :-( Hence, the ICCA's apparent change of course regarding the reinstallment of the flood of titles this year in London was quite another surprise for some of us. ----- But let's switch from the past to the present. Best wishes and hearty congratulations to the authors of the new champions, Stefan and James -- good work, well done !!! ----- =Ernst= P.S. WWW pages of "DarkThought" at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.
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