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Subject: Re: Participants 2003 world champs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:18:18 10/03/03

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On October 03, 2003 at 03:12:20, Tony Werten wrote:

>On October 03, 2003 at 00:25:33, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2003 at 22:26:47, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On October 01, 2003 at 18:50:59, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 01, 2003 at 07:34:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 30, 2003 at 18:39:42, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>It's too bad they never have this thing in North America.  Even if I wrote a
>>>>>>program, I can't afford to travel to Europe. :(
>>>>>
>>>>>hotel is a lot cheaper than it is in USA. So for the same service you'll end up
>>>>>cheaper than in USA!
>>>>
>>>>I'm not concerned about the hotel cost, I'm concerned about the airplane cost,
>>>>which is much more.
>>>>
>>>>>for organizing a tournament in north america, look mad at Levy, not at me.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not blaming you, or anyone else, I'm just stating my opinion.  It bugs me
>>>>that there are N computerchess events every year in Europe and about zero in the
>>>>US.
>>>
>>>Says more about american organisation talent than european.
>>
>>No, it just says more about population density in Europe vs. North America.
>
>Actually, I think it's about the computerchessenthousiastsdensity.
>
>Tony
>

Actually it doesn't.  A while back we enumerated American computer chess
programs vs european computer chess programs.  We were not overwhelmed
by European numbers.  We are overwhelmed by _commercial_ chess programs
from Europe since a few old-timers are gone (wchess, mchess, sargon,
socrates, to name a few).  But there are _many_ American (north and
south including Canada) computer chess developers...

>>
>>Dave



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