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Subject: Re: Nostalgy Tournament for Sensible People

Author: Uwe Immel

Date: 05:49:20 12/07/97

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On December 06, 1997 at 12:58:29, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Well, until now we are 5: Thorsten, Albert, Christophe, Karsten and me.
>By the way, Kasrten I believed I was mad because I have something like 4
>or 5 old units and 50 PC programs, more or less, but you with your 150
>dedicated units, you are the champion. You deserve to be condecorated...
>Respect the tournament, I think we must wait a couple of days because
>maybe more people could want to join. We can put twesday or wenesday as
>limit date. Then, we can do the list of programs and machines available,
>to chose the most interesting of them because quality or historic
>reasons and then we should stablish a rythm of play. Thorsten, I believe
>one hour per move is too much, but is debatable. I suppose the way to do
>it is so easy as to stablish the pairings and then comunicate moves by
>Email,in contant connection. Sundays is cheaper and all of us have more
>time, I guess. No matter, this we can see later.
>Else: the programs and unit should be really old. No sense to use, let
>us say, a Travel Champion unit. I propose 1989 year as a limit. Inside
>that limits I have Par Excellence, Chessmaster 2000, Psion, Colossus X,
>Cyrus, Power Chess ( an old one, not the actual based in Wchess by
>Kittinger), Mychess, Sargon V and I don't remeber more, I should take as
>look at my old floppy disk boxes.
>Some new ideas and sugestions?
>Fernando

I think, 30 minutes/move is a good compromise for the time controls.
It’s enough time for the machines to avoid blunders and should be
leading
to demanding games.
Playing by email should be the easiest way, also it would be a good
thing
to post the current standings of the games regular in CCC.

Uwe



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