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Subject: Re: Maastricht

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:17:10 08/03/01

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On August 03, 2001 at 12:54:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 03, 2001 at 11:24:56, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>The original situation was terrible.  I can find fault with the original
>>compromise decision, but it was made under pressure and didn't cause a lot of
>>damage, so I think it's okay.
>>
>>Some of the other stuff would have been bad.  Multiple entrants per team would
>>have been bad.  Imagine the kind of stuff that would been said in here if round
>>one is Fritz versus Fritz, Junior versus Junior, and Shredder versus Shredder,
>>and in order to win you have to play Junior twice and Shredder twice and Fritz
>>twice.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Multiple entrants per team make sense only if there are 2 tournaments when
>microcomputer should be allowed to play in both competition only if the team of
>the micro does not have a multi version.
>
>In this case Fritz versus Fritz cannot happen because the 2 Fritz's are going to
>play in different torunaments.
>
>Uri

If I understand properly, there aren't two tournaments.  There is one tournament
with two titles, so there is one Fritz.

The only question now is whether anyone will show up with a multi-processor
machine, since the single-processor title is more desirable.

bruce



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