Thursday, November 12, 2009

SLOW INTERNET CONNECTION IS A MAJOR COMMUNICATION HURDLE AT THE WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP IN TURKEY

During the Pan American Youth Chess Championship this summer, we asked the delegate of Puerto Rico to be the special contributor of our Spanish language blog: www.chesscampeona.blogspot.com, it was our first experience in real time reporting. We held telephone interviews, special reports in Spanish and simply had a great time. We considered doing the same for this blog, but it totally passed my mind.

Today we communicated with 3-Americans in Turkey, through email, and the common denominator was the same: slow internet connection at the site. David Zeng, the father of Winston Zeng - North American Youth Chess Championship U-8, informed me he still could not get adequate internet speed at 2:00 a.m. even while everyone else was asleep.

That's bad.

Needless to say, as we get a "more personal touch" reporting from our special contributors - you will be the first to know.

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