Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:28:41 07/09/02
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On July 09, 2002 at 03:39:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On July 08, 2002 at 22:48:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Little interest? IBM and Intel sponsored chess events here. IBM sponsored >>the last ACM event in fact. There are also _plenty_ of computer chess authors >>in the US and Canada... The "little interest" doesn't ring true... > >Bah! Then why are there no computer chess events there? > >In Europe there's Paderborn, Maastricht, Leiden (2x) and Berlin. > >In the states? Zip. > >If you can't organize a single tournament, you shouldn't be talking >about holding a World Championship. > >-- >GCP We organized _all_ of the events for the first 10+ years of computer chess. We organized 25 ACM events, and the early WCCC events. So I suppose we did "OK" in that regard. Just look at where the original charter members of the ICCA itself came from. And where _most_ of the computer chess programs came from.
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