Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:08:35 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 20:27:41, Steve Maughan wrote: >Dann, > >>These qualifiers could be invited to a public match, where the programmers get >>to meet. Mostly it is a social event, but it would be nice for the programmers >>to get to meet once in a while. > >I like the idea but I would point out that this would mean that only the best >programs would meet up. Paradoxically I beleive that it's the lower ranking >programs / programmers that get the biggest 'kick' out of meeting up. So, as an >addition can I suggest that at the 'qualifiers event' there is also an open >event for 'Amateur World Champion' run in parallel. I also think this would add >atmosphere to the occation - imagine if only Franz, Stefan, Ed, Christophe, Bob >were couped up in a hotel for a week - it would be much better with a few more >keenies. Good point. Maybe if the association had dues or entry fees or something, it could sponsor the flights for the top amateurs (and let them handle hotel accomodations). Or top amateur + top professional both get airplane tickets. On the other hand, I would hate to see it end up like the ICCA, which does not seem to provide much benefit for the dollars invested. It might be nice to have national (and maybe even state/province championships too, if chess programming were to become absurdly popular). So (for instance) Uruchess would probably be the first champion of Uruguay, but other countries would have a lot more competition.
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