Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:04:23 11/26/03
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On November 26, 2003 at 12:53:47, Louis Fagliano wrote: >On November 26, 2003 at 12:52:03, Louis Fagliano wrote: > >>On November 26, 2003 at 11:43:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 26, 2003 at 06:26:38, Gerald Wright wrote: >>> >>>>.world championship >>> >>> >>>1. This event is always held in Europe, the last North American WCCC was 1989 >>>in Canada. That makes it expensive to attend. >>> >>>2. It is right on top of a major US holiday, Thanksgiving (tomorrow, Thursday, >>>is the official holiday, but schools are also closed on Friday. May as well >>>have it on top of Christmas, from the US perspective. It would be no worse. >>> >>>3. It takes a week to play plus travel time. We have classes the first three >>>days of this week, plus the days surrounding the holiday. Missing that many >>>classes is simply not viable... >> >>Do all programmers have to be there in person? Could you not have sent a >>friend, assistant, or proxy? I am not sure, I think they have to pay a higher entry fee if they send somebody else to operate the program. > >In fact, why isn't the whole thing over the internet anyway? No, the games are played in Graz with human operators making the moves over the board and punching the clock. I think they even have to write down the moves on the scoresheet. Of course the machines might be somewhere else (this time at least Diep's machine is), but a terminal is in the playing hall for the operator. José.
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