Author: Steve McRiley
Date: 12:38:35 11/15/99
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On November 15, 1999 at 15:16:22, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>This is what I think also. We also need to figure out more exact what time will >>be best. I is probably impossible to make it 'great time' for everybody but as >>long as the goal is to make it 'good/ok' for as many as possible Im sure we will >>pull of a great tournament! >> >>/McRiley > >Hi Steve, > >It's great to have ICC's support. No problem. We think it would be great fun to. A discussion about this kind of event has been going on and off on ICC but other things have come in between. Lets go for it this time. >The timing of the rounds is tricky because we have participants from so many >time zones. Almost all of the particpants are between GMT-8 and GMT+2. (The >exception being Peter McKenzie in New Zealand, and possibly one other person in >Australia). > >Based on this, I'd suggest the following start times (ICC time, GMT-5) > >If we play 60 10, early round starts at noon, late round at 3pm >If we play 90 10, early round starts at 11am, late round at 3pm > >Obviously, this isn't perfect for everybody, but I think it's as close as we'll >get. > >I asked for feedback on the time controls, and it seemed that most people didn't >have a strong preference. John Stanbeck preferred 60 10, while James Swafford, >Vincent Diepeveen, and myself prefer 90 10. > >The other unanswered question is the date. I think we should shoot for January >or early February. Late December is tricky because of the Christmas holidays, >and early December is just too soon - it might be hard for everybody to clear >their schedules for two weekends. > >--Peter According to the information I have Hastings is January 4-12 and Wijk aan Zee is January 14-30 and both will start about 7 AM EST. I see no problem with running the tourny at the same date (quite the opposit, there will be LOTS of people on ICC during theses events) but lets not run it at the same time. If my maths is right (to many timezoes out there!) what you have suggested is ok. I can be good also to aim for mid/late January or february. This gives us some time to get all details worked out, the programmers some time to work out some details and time for comments/suggestions. As for the TC, maybe we need more discussion about this to try to please as many as possible. I think both of the above suggested are good so programmers, witch do you want ?! Shall we go for 8 rounds? I think it will be a good number of ronunds. /McRiley
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