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Subject: Re: There Will be No WMCC 2000

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 08:01:50 04/23/00

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On April 23, 2000 at 10:34:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Sponsors for the _event_ are important.  ICCA uses the proceeds from this event
>to fund basic operations yearly.  I think that is going to change, as it is
>going to get harder and harder to get sponsors to cough up 36 thousand bucks and
>up, after (in the opinion of sponsors, chess was 'solved' by Deep Blue).

I wonder if most of the funding for these chess program competitions is going to
come from the major chess software companies in the future. It looks as if they
have been increasing their funding activity lately, ie. the dutch championships.
If that is true, how would that influence private enterprises in the future?

Best wishes...
Mogens



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