Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:53:42 09/25/03
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On September 25, 2003 at 09:41:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On September 25, 2003 at 09:15:09, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On September 25, 2003 at 08:26:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>ICGA asked me to Call for participation in the world championship 2003.
>>>
>>>So far only 3 programs subscribed to join the world championship computerchess.
>>>DIEP is one of them, i guess Brutus the other one.
>>>
>>
>>And there three types of people: those who can count and those who can not.
>>José (:
>>
>>P.S. Good luck and lots of fun the world championship!
>
>Ah just had email from Stefan, they all didn't know you had to register 'so
>soon'.
>
>Usually world champs most things get organized at the tournament day itself,
>i remember especially the paniccing phase 1 short before the world champs
>started in October 1997, Paris :)
>
>Not a single organizer there from the home organisation (so not ICGA) spoke a
>word English (and my english isn't that good either, for sure in 1997 it was
>horror & co too), Dutch or German and my French is horrible, so i just sat
>down at a chair, installed my computer and just guessed what the hand movements
>of the home organisation meant.
>
>They must have guessed in advance to only receive French speaking participants,
>a normal assumption for French organisers :)
That's really unfair. The 1997 World Championship organization in Paris was
great. Remember that we were playing not in some obscure university hall, we
were playing in the "Palais de la Bourse".
The main problem I remember there was AMD. They sponsored the event and provided
computers, but there were not enough for everybody and some of them were
apparently defective (The K6-233MHz was new at the time and I remember Amir Ban
had been provided with a defective one and had to switch machines after
detecting a problem).
BTW I won't go to Graz. I guess the organizers wanted to prevent any computer
overheating problem by organizing the tournament in November in Austria? :)
Christophe
>So compared to that 3 participants already a registering deadline 1.5 month
>before the tournament starts is pretty wishful thinking :)
>
>Let's not forget that it is getting winter in Austria end of November. So i
>expect dangerous traffic circumstances and so on.
>
>Perhaps you have to go by skies to the tournament hall each day, who knows which
>surprises await us in Austria?
>
>Let's pray that internet works well there. It didn't in paderborn 1999. Internet
>was a disaster there.
>
>>
>>>Perhaps the script to subscribe didn't work well.
>>>
>>>Please register before 1 october 2003, after that entry fees will be doubled.
>>>
>>>http://www.icga.org
>>>
>>>Those who registered but didn't get confirmation by email yet, please ship an
>>>email to register.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Vincent
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