Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:53:57 05/15/01
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On May 15, 2001 at 11:49:56, Larry Proffer wrote: >On May 15, 2001 at 09:29:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 15, 2001 at 07:39:50, James Swafford wrote: >> >>>On May 15, 2001 at 06:12:51, Ed Schröder wrote: >>> >>>>1) World Micro will be in Maastricht, the Netherlands in August. Provisionally >>>>Aug 19-23. Exact dates to be confirmed soon. >>> >>>Unfortunate (for me)... I was hoping to go to this one. :-( >>> >>>-- >>>James >> >> >> >>I agree. This is the kind of foolishness that is going to cause me to really >>consider my ICCA membership the next time it runs out. >> >> > >Can't you get someone in Europe to operate Crafty for you? > >Or even travel out here on an aeroplane. We Europeans don't bite. Maastricht is >a great and culturally deep city. > >Hey Bob, did you ever set foot outside the USA? > > Been outside the USA _many_ times. But the issue is _cost_. Why should someone in North America have to pay travel across the ocean, year after year, when the organization we founded 20+ years ago specifically addressed this issue in the charter by saying the tournament will _alternate_ between Europe and North America. At the university here, we don't do international travel except for very good reasons. Computer chess doesn't qualify. I'm not willing to tell my wife "Hey, our vacation is going to be to europe this summer, but we are going to be stuck at a chess tournament for the week we are over there so I can't travel very much. I don't think she would buy that as a "vacation". I think it a bit funny to hold the event closer to the very ones that are making money from the field, and basically excluding the rest, due to high travel costs. Just look at the sites used by the WCCC events through 1992 to see the alternation. There it stopped completely. BTW, my passport includes visits to England, France, Scotland, former USSR, South America, Canada, Mexico, Australia, China and Japan, to name a few. :)
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