Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 02:07:45 08/16/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 22:00:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >... >here's my "personal take" on this... >I participated in my first computer chess tournament in 1976, >and did it every year thru 1994, and have been a little more sporadic since due >to the extreme length of a WCCC event at present... > >... I hope to attend one personally if we can get off >this week+ schedule Hello Bob, maybe the next (=Second) Chess960 Computer World Championship in Mainz might be an interesting target for you. There is a high chance (in my eyes > 90 percent) that the current sponsor (LIVINGSTON, a company for computer renting) will support also in 2006, and in this case already a date is known for the event: * Thursday and Friday, 17 + 18 of August, 2006 * 9 rounds CH system (5 rounds on Thursday, 4 rounds on Friday) * playing time 25 minutes base time plus 10 seconds per move In my eyes for you the following aspects may play a role: MINUS - Chess960 (=Shuffle Chess with Fischer castling) is played instead of traditional chess - the event is in Europe - the Chess960 Computer World Championship is not a stand-alone, but part of a big chess show (the "Chess Classic Mainz") PLUS - the management of the Chess Classic is really professional (with 10 years of experience) - two days is perfect length for "little time owners" like you (in German: "Wenig-Zeit-Inhaber", a term coined by Hans-Walter Schmitt, the boss of Chess Classic) - play with remote computers is allowed - Mainz is very near to Frankfurt airport, with good subway connections - programmers may have a look at top human chess (Anand, Shirov, Grischuk, Svidler ...) who are playing next door (and who themselves look at the computer boards from time to time) - the winner of 2006 will get a reward: probably a match against the human Chess960 World Chamipon (currently Peter Svidler has this title) >About all that is left to say is that this old coot still has a lot of tricks >left. So long as I am on the right side of the grass, I hope to keep pulling >the tricks out of my sleeve from time to time. :) Come to Mainz and show us, please. Ingo.
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