From: nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith)
Subject: Re: pro game
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:55:39 GMT

In article <tSb-SL-@engin.umich.edu> storm@med.umich.edu (John Starkweather ) writes:
>
>When is the pro game going to be on the IGS?

i believe it was tentatively scheduled for september 9-10 at some ungodly
time for watchers in the US, but a good time for europeans.  Jan van der
Steen knows a heck of lot more than i do about it....

here is a copy of his network-rattling post (approximately):

*************************************************************************
*        LIVE PROFESSIONAL GO ON THE INTERNATIONAL GO SERVER            *
*                                                                       *
*               Kobayashi Koichi, Kisei and Meijin                      *
*                               vs                                      *
*                        Otake Hideo, 9 dan                             *
*************************************************************************

On the 9th and 10th of September 1992, the first game of the Japanese
top title match for the "Meijin" title will be played in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. The local organizers of this event are currently
working on an agreement with the sponsor of this event, the Japanese
newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" to get permission to broadcast this event
*live* on the International Go Server.

The game will be played in one of the suites of Hotel Okura Amsterdam.
There will be a full-time video transmission of the Go board to the
European Go Cultural Centre in Amstelveen, an Amsterdam suburb.
In the European Go Centre the game will be analysed for audience and
transmitted to the International Go Server including these analysis.

<<<note: there has already been much discussion about the following!!>>>
On the Go Server you can observe the game and freely kibitz on the moves.
The organizers will kibitz all professional analysis done in Amsterdam.
In coorporation with the system administrators of the IGS we will also try
to arrange a Chinese professional to attend the IGS to kibitz on the game.

A top title match game is spread over two days. This is necessary due
to the alloted time: 9 hours per player + possible extra byo-yomi time.
The scheduled sessions are:

	 9 September: 09:00 - 17:00 (GMT+1)
	10 September: 09:00 -  ...  (GMT+1)

I tried to calculate the corresponding (central) USA time:

	 9 September: 01:00 - 09:00 (GMT-7)
	10 September: 01:00 -  ...  (GMT-7)

and the Korean time:

	 9 September: 16:00 - 24:00 (GMT+7)
	10 September: 16:00 -  ...  (GMT+7)

Players in other time zones can do a small adjustment of the nearest time.

Well, that's about it for the moment. I'm very interested in your opinions
on this idea and would like you to drop me an Email to indicate whether
you would attend the game on the IGS and what time you would attend.
This is of importance to both the system administrators of the IGS
and to the local organizers of this event.

Thanks,

     Jan van der Steen                 jansteen@cwi.nl



---------and again, thanks to Jan for making whatever happens possible!

- nate, who usually isnt alive at those hours (just ko :)
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