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Subject: Re: ICC and the Computer Chess Championship

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:30:31 11/16/99

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On November 16, 1999 at 21:19:54, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On November 16, 1999 at 12:56:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 1999 at 11:17:43, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>
>>>On November 15, 1999 at 16:41:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 15, 1999 at 15:16:22, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>60 10 please or it will start too early and/or run too late.  It's a matter of 6
>>>>hours of chess as opposed to 8 hours of chess, I would much prefer 6.
>>>>
>>>>Assuing 60 10, here is how this would work:
>>>>
>>>>PST:  Start at 9 a.m., end at perhaps 3 p.m.
>>>>Bob:  Start at 11 p.m., end at perhaps 5 p.m.
>>>>EST:  Start at 12 p.m., end at perhaps 6 p.m.
>>>>GMT:  Start at 5 p.m., end at perhaps 11 p.m.
>>>>
>>>>That sounds reasonable, but I think it can move an hour either way without
>>>>killing anyone.
>>>>
>>>>bruce
>>>
>>>This idea of flexible playing times will kill spectator interest. This is a bad
>>>idea. Besides, when computer events go on in europe, americans pay the price or
>>>don't play. Now it should the americans turn to play at a convenient time. All
>>>the games going on at the same time maximizes spectator interest.
>>
>>
>>There is _nothing_ 'flexible' in the above times.  9am PST == 11AM CST = 12PM
>>EST = 5pm GMT.
>
>I should have read more carefully. "Bob" time??


Most know that I am on "Central Standard Time (US)".  Bruce was using a
metaphor.  :)



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