Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 16:51:56 06/25/98
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On June 25, 1998 at 12:12:40, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On June 25, 1998 at 02:52:50, jonathan Baxter wrote: > >>On June 24, 1998 at 18:15:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>I tried to get the Australians to let me into their thing, and they balked. >> >>Who did you talk to? Problem may be that ferret would clean up here. I know of >>no Australian program better than KnightCap. I'm hoping my program, lambChop, will be better than KnightCap. Sounds like I might end up being at a large hardware disadvantage though - I think KnightCap will be running on a 20 cpu machine. >> >>Jon > >Someone posted something about the Australian championship here. > >I asked my wife if she wanted to go to Australia and she said sure. So I posted >something to the effect of, if you let me in, I'll go. > >I don't remember who responded, but the general idea was that they were going to >keep it closed, but might let in New Zealanders. > >I was counting on them letting in New Zealanders, because I was hoping to meet >Peter McKenzie. I didn't want to go in order to win, I wanted to go in order to >meet people and see Australia. > >No big deal, it is their tournament and they can do what they want. If they >would rather keep the Americans and Europeans out, I can't object. > >bruce Maybe the Australian tournament will be open next year. If this tournament at MIT eventuates, there is a decent chance I'll turn up. Why not run it using ICC or FICS, and say have a couple of sites where programs must be physically present. Maybe one site in the States, and one in Europe... cheers, Peter
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