Author: Bella Freud
Date: 13:00:28 11/13/99
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On November 13, 1999 at 14:56:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 13, 1999 at 14:50:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On November 13, 1999 at 12:02:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Check past ACM/WCCC events. There was _no_ entry fee for those events, so >>>that wasn't an issue. It was more about 'marketing' than anything else. Yes >>>there are/were exceptions. There were also plenty of non-exceptions. >> >>Didn't Schroder win the WCCC in 1992? He attended in 1995 and 1999, although he >>sat out the WMCCC's. >> >>I don't know about the ACM events, the last one was a long time ago and those >>aren't world championship events. >> >>bruce > > >Go back to the WMCCC events in the 80's. Almost without fail, the winner one >year would not play the next. Everyone complained. But they also followed >right along whenever _they_ won. :) > >The WCCC's are different... Micros never won those until 1992 when no 'big >iron' played. But when a program did well at an annual event, you could almost >count on it not entering the following year, to keep the P/R going from the >'win'... Please forgive my intrusion. Didn't Fritz beat the Deep Thought/Blue thing then? And did Fritz not be repetitively entered? Bella
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