Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:31:16 04/28/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 16:32:49, Bruce Moreland wrote: [snip] > >I think the rule is fine and I believe it. I wouldn't go even if the rule were >trashed. If people are going to travel thousands of miles to go to tournaments, >they shouldn't end up sitting across the table from people who don't have >anything to do with the program that they are operating. > >bruce There are several considerations: 1) To have a World Championship with most of the major programs in the world in attendance. 2) To have the location change dramatically from event to event in order to enable occasional attendance by programmers from all over the world. 3) To have programmers sit across from each other (of course, this would imply that the programmers actually talk about how their program work, but does anyone seriously think that this happens in any great detail from the commerical programmers?). Now, you have to determine which of these three considerations are the most important (or if they are important at all). It is evident that the ICCA does not consider #1 or #2 to be important. They blew off #2 over 10 years ago and this year, they are enforcing their earlier rule to blow off #1. So, to them (and evidently to you), #3 is the most important out of these 3. To the rest of the world, #3 is a nicety in a World Championship tournament, but should not have priority over #1 or #2. I would think to the vast majority of people interested in computer chess, #1 would have the greatest priority. The bottom line appears to be that the ICCA events are quasi-european computer chess elite (i.e. commercial) boys club social get togethers which can be attended by non-europeans and amateurs if they have money and time to burn (note: This does not mean that these events are not worth something. Everyone wants to be able to put on their box that their program was champ.). But, these events are not really World Championships, regardless of name (similar to how the World Series is not really a World Championship baseball event, but rather a North American one). KarinsDad :)
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