Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:26:37 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 11:51:23, Frederic Friedel wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong: > >1. The Dutch Championship 2000 has by far the highest prize money of any >national championship in the world. And your point? Is money everything to you? >2. The Dutch Championship 2000 is the only national championship with more than >30 visitors (when I went to the US championships in Colorado some years ago >there were two visiors who were not directly attached to the players -- I was >one of them). Poor analogy. I was there as well (and I was not attached to any of the players, so you must be referring to me). The problem with attendence there was that Denver is not a chess mecca like New York or London. Denver is in the middle of nowhere. Most people have to travel at least a thousand miles and usually much more (5000 or more miles for most Europeans) to get there. Whereas the Dutch Championship is within 400 miles of a lot of major chess centers (Berlin, London, Paris). >3. The Dutch Championship 2000 is the only national championship in the world >that makes the front pages of the newspapers (I noticed it was on page one of >the London Daily Telegraph this morning). Ok. Again, your point? This is the first national championship (to my knowledge) that has a computer playing in it. And so it has some media time. If computers were to play in most every national championship, you would no longer see it make the front pages. Fine, a large prize fund and a gimmick of playing a chess computer in a national championship has attracted some attention. But, that's all it is: a gimmick. And that's how most serious chess players will see it. KarinsDad :)
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