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Subject: Re: I notion for a chess contest format

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 22:32:51 07/31/01

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On July 31, 2001 at 23:26:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Have the chess contests first run by country:
>{country contestants meet first}
>
>Top two from each country go to continent contest:
>European
>North American
>South American
>African {Are there any programs from this continent?}
>Asian {Include Russia and the middle east, or maybe put Russia into Europe?}
>Austrailan {And New Zealand}
>
>Continent winner goes to world contest
>
>I think it might be nice because geographic demarcations tend to spur interest.
>Since the contests would initially be local, travel would not be as difficult.
>
>If travel were impossible/highly impractical, it might be possible to have games
>played via the internet, as supervised by some university staff when the games
>are performed.
>
>Since there would only be 6 continental winners (where the travel is very
>expensive and it would not be sensible to play over the internet) perhaps they
>could have their plane tickets paid for by a sponsoring organization.
>
>With only 6 engines in the finals, it would not take an absurd amount of time to
>complete it.



That sounds interesting.



    Christophe



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