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Subject: Re: Photos from the 5 th World Computer Chess Championship, Cologne 1986

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 11:46:07 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 10:43:54, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On March 13, 2001 at 02:57:57, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>Correct! I somewhere have a picture of that. The machine was an APPLE 2E
>>running at 1 (!!) Mhz that was upgraded by a technician to 8-10 Mhz. This
>>was of course asking for trouble. My guess was that because of the 400-600
>>visitors some extra heat was produced and that was just the limit for the
>>processor to handle.
>
>it was the accelerator card for apple 2 e from schaetzle and besteh !!
>but not in a dedicated chess computer but in the original version for
>apple.
>
>when i am right joerg mitsdoerfer was the guy with the knowledge
>who brought the know how to computerschach and spiele cause he was the
>guy in computerschach and spiele writing the apple articles (he had apple
>computers).
>
>
>>Those were the days that many people came over to watch this new phenomenon.
>>I remember 1981 the first ducth championship, 1500 vistors, television, all
>>major news papers reported.
>
>>Compare this with the world championship in London 2000. Just 3 (!!) visitors
>>who came a few days later and stayed for a few days. Their names:
>
>that is ICCA reason. they do not promote the event in a
>good way. they are not interested in visitors nor programmers. but in
>gettiong their flights paid :-))

I think it is more a general tendency. I heard bad stories about the number
of visitors of the last Paderborn tournament too. I guess that these days
people look at web-sites.

Ed




>>- Ossi Weiner
>>- Frederic Friedel
>>- Richard Lang
>>
>>Why oh why...
>>
>>Ed



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