Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:36:39 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 12:04:15, martin fierz wrote: >On December 01, 2003 at 12:00:07, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>On December 01, 2003 at 11:54:51, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>On December 01, 2003 at 11:07:31, Matthew Hull wrote: >>> >>>>On December 01, 2003 at 10:14:20, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>>> >>>>>http://www.icga.org/News/events/wccc2004/BarIlan.pdf >>>>> >>>>>12th World Computer Chess Championship >>>>>Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel >>>>>July 4th-12th 2004 >>>>> >>> >>>hi matthew, >>> >>>i guess i have to apologize. i thought you americans (= you and bob mainly) were >>>overreacting on this WCCC@thanksgiving thing; one more conspiracy theory or so >>>was my first thought. but putting the next championship in a different season on >>>the only american holiday they can possibly find round there... strange! unless >>>they actually think they're helping you guys attend by putting it on american >>>holidays?! >>> >>>then again, i'd be more worried about the flak-jacket thing bob mentioned than >>>about it being a holiday... >> >>I don't know what kind of holidays you have in your country, but in the US, >>holidays are great family events (for those blessed with families they like :)). >> Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th (big family barbecue time!!). Frequently >>these holidays are a time of reunions, especially in the South. > >for us it's mainly christmas. thanksgiving doesn't exist in europe in the same >form. >but as i suspected, it's actually by design that they put it on your holidays, >see omid's post. > >cheers > martin If they wanted to do something helpful, they might consider playing the first 1/2 of the games on the internet, then leave the last N games, (N=6 max) for the "in person" part. That would need 2-3 days for playing, plus another day or so for travel. Even I could swing that. But not a week plus.
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