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Subject: Re: Real life computerchess meeting in Berlin/Germany on Sunday

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 03:00:03 04/17/02

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On April 16, 2002 at 18:54:49, Peter Berger wrote:

>A group of people (computerchess fans, chessprogrammers also allowed if they
>behave well ;) )  in the German capital meet from time to time to talk about
>computerchess or any other topics they are interested in.
>
>This weekend another of those most conspiratorial meetings will take place.
>
>It is rumoured that the mighty Heiner Marxen, programmer of Chest
>(http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/), a very nice guy and even more clever than
>you would expect if you only know his mighty Chest matesolver, will be there.
>
>Another regular is Thorsten Czub, maybe the most controversial computerchess
>expert of them all, who knows everything about them progs after watching only
>one game and His Royal Highness of the New Paradigm himself - quite a nice and
>friendly guy IRL.
>
>Not to forget Ingo Bauer, Gromit and Yace tester, and renowned expert and fan of
>Amateur chessprogramming.
>
>And who else?
>
>Well .., in fact simply everyone who happens to show up.
>
>Where? - Beim Griechen, Ecke Prenzlauer Str. / Danziger Str., Name Apollon /
>Berlin,Germany
>When ? - Sonntag 21.04.02 19.00 Uhr.
>Who  ? - Let's wait and see.
>
>Did I really make sure to anger all of the above? - yes, I think so ;) .  Well,
>I hope at least I also reached _you_ - the lady/guy living in or close to
>Berlin/Germany and interested in a real life computerchess meeting. I can assure
>you from experience there will be _very_ few technical talks way over your head
>, instead the meetings tend to be much fun, inspiring and interesting.
>
>Also plans for another computerchess tournament in Berlin in 2002 might be
>discussed ( for a nice impression from the first one if you look for fun, please
>refer to http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/,
>http://www.quarkchess.de/PC/BELCT2001/, or instead maybe better
>http://www.vrichey.de/berlin2001/ if you are more interested in some kind of
>serious information).

Very entertaining email.
Wish I could be there, but its a bit far away :-).

Expecting a full report later...

Peter

>
>See you,
>Peter



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