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Subject: Re: WMCC in Canada? Great!

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 19:47:36 08/25/00

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On August 25, 2000 at 05:32:05, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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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