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Subject: Re: I'm back from London!

Author: James Robertson

Date: 20:19:15 08/28/00

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On August 28, 2000 at 21:38:21, Mark Ryan wrote:

>On August 28, 2000 at 20:58:50, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>Hi all! I finally made it back in to California. Unfortunately, my hard drive
>>burned out and I lost a lot of data. However, my new computer is ok and I still
>>have the log files and stuff from the WMCCC. I'll write that up and either post
>>it here or give it to Frank to put on his website.
>>
>>The tournament was a lot of fun. I enjoyed finally getting to see a lot of
>>people I had previously only known from a few CCC posts. Insomniac had a slow
>>start, and the draw with Diep was disappointing. Fortunatately, the results
>>started looking up during the blitz tournament, and beating Nimzo at the end
>>made a very cool finish.
>>
>>Is anyone interested in the blitz game scores? I can post them too if anybody
>>wants to look at them....
>>
>>James
>
>Congratulations on a fine result at the WMCCC.  Many CCC members feel that
>Insomniac is the true World Amateur Computer Chess Champion because SOS is
>available commercially.  Either way, it is a great result.
>Cheers,
>Mark

Yes, I am happy with Insomniac's performance. I still don't know how they define
amateur; perhaps there is some logicical reason reason to classify some
commercially available programs as amateur. In any case, it is a little to late
for me to complain!

James



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