Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:29:29 05/15/01
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On May 15, 2001 at 13:07:27, José Carlos wrote: >On May 15, 2001 at 12:53:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. >> >>:) > > Ever been to Spain? You shouldn't miss it... and your wife'd love a vacation >over here: sun, beach, parties... :) > > José C. Madrid in fact. But it was about 15-16 years ago... Barcelona on another trip a few years earlier.
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