Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 09:30:16 11/17/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 18:27:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: >We're going to have a discussion about time controls, number of rounds, clock >adjustment, who can operate, what a microcomputer is, and so on. > >I have been to most of these events, and I'm just as able as you to figure out >that weird things happen at the events. > >I think that you might also agree that a discussion amongst likely participants, >people who have all been there and all seen what happens at the events, is >likely to do a lot of good. > >This is an attempt to formalize some stuff, and regardless of what else goes on, >that can't be bad. right. but this discussion will not change anything to the main problem you know as good as i do. "and I'm just as able as you to figure out that weird things happen at the events" what you call weird is not weird. its part of the plan. the participants are part of the plan. the idea is as follows: the participants of the icca pay. the board of the icca gets the free flights in the big hotels with luxury. the participants of the championship do play in a room with no windows. where they have to fall from the chairs because the floor is very very slippery. in the evenings the board of the icca has big alcohol orgies. of course the families of the board of the icca is with the guys. otherwise the big orgys would not make much sense. there are they. sitting in a pub. outside of paris, paderborn, maastricht. singing and shouting loud "hello" to the world. how nice to be one of us. the next day there is nothing to drink. there is no internet connection. there is no sponsor. the people have to bring their own machines with them. in the round before the final round you see strange guys coming in dark clothes talking with the winning programmers. you see $ in the eyes of these dark people. they make contracts. in the final round they sit at the table of the world champion program. in the rest of the days you see a dictator onto a wall, frederic with his camera, the eierbaron, or other narcistic persons making pictures alike: me and famous programmer X, me between famous programmer Y. you will see a few unknown programmers. they sleep in youth hotels. or camping places. they get a visiting card by friedel, for a new edition of "young talents". you see ossi weiner - with new hair color and and extremely young and blond new girl friend. you will see 0.00 on the fritz screen, in almost any game, and nobody asks why this score. you will hear jaap van den herik adjudicating long games in the nights. and you will meat frans morsch at the bar in the evenings because fritz lost again to gandalf. you will see bruce moreland with a headset to better listen the 200 watt power sound of his program when it had moved, you will see christophe with a tiger cappy, a tiger mousepad and there will be some smoke of eds cigarette next to him. or out of the room they cook out the next game. follow the smoke. just 2 weeks before the event, there will be an update of the web site of the icca event, saying that the event will - in opposite to emails and other publications, not take place in maastricht again and again, because they have no money, but in saddam husseins new bunker, 200 meter under earth, and that the toilettes are out of gold. jews are not allowed to participate this time, sorry, but despite this, all others participate with great energy. fritz is winning the title and you see bruce moreland on a web cam in the bunker, in front of the tournament hall, with his son, his wife and his new short trousers. on his t-shirt there is a microsoft advertising about the new XP operating system. tony marsland always sleeps between the rounds , the orgy of the last day was too impressive. and david levy brings another of his daughters with him. chris whittington had the 2nd fight with a guy from belgium who said something about the "cheap piecesets" and the weak opening cstal played. next day the gzy from belgium is away. cock de gorter has cooked out a new famous gambit-opening for the king. gerd isenbergs program could become champion in winning famous opening gambit lines against famous opponents. and fritz has still a score of 0.00. could be deep tablebase access in the opening-stage, the search depth has increased to 54 plies now. the program is doing 100.000.000.000 nodes per second. it needed 3 days to bring the new chessbase machine from fujitsu-siemens to the event. 8 men had to carry it to the stage, and 3 nuclear power stations bring the energy to make it run. there will be ananse and his nice daughter following everything. vincent will make some of his famous comments. what an event. the same procedure than every year. wow ! >bruce
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