Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 23:39:21 12/13/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 01:53:04, Matthew Hull wrote: >On December 12, 2003 at 01:40:25, Johan de Koning wrote: > >>On December 10, 2003 at 10:36:44, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>On December 10, 2003 at 02:46:34, Johan de Koning wrote: >> >>>>c) lots of wasted time and I loved every minute of it. >>> >>>Is this the European way or just the ICGA way? >> >>My point was that the WCCC is an event. >>An event by & for humans, not by & for computers. >>Barking madness, as you call it, is part of the event. >>Technicalities (organizational and electrical) are part of the event. >>They can be discussed, but still they are technicalities. >> >>Humans are pretty smart (even the ones that fail to agree with me :-). >>They can easily survive and multiply with only 1 hour "work" per day. >>The rest of their lives is about wasting time (aka money) in an >>enjoyable manner. Creating a chess program is enjoyable. Pitting it >>against others is enjoyable, and even if it isn't, learning why not >>is enjoyable. Going to the movies is enjoyable. And finally, joining >>the WCCC *can* be enjoyable. >> >>However, optimizing an event like the WCCC for time is like compressing >>LotR for a 22' time slot: an interesting challenge, but a completely >>different thing. And while I'm with the analogy, [snipped more blah]. >> >>... Johan > >I completely grok what you are saying. However, the happy medium between a >leisurely event and an efficient, cost-effective event must be balanced >according to the needs of the _World's_ participants The _World_ is not going to help your side of the argument. :-) > with the primary goal of >the event in view. If you don't mind me repeating: there is no primary goal. The event can be experienced on many different levels, by many people. The WCCC cross table might be the primary *motivation* for a handful of contenders. But a 5-round 2-day event would challenge the motivation of the other 100 persons, and probably even of the contenders. > Instead, it seems to us that they are balanced by only >considering the needs of Europeans (and relatively near nieghbors) who have >loads of liesure time to burn. Well, of course there is the optimal balance, as a function of the expected (or desired!) crowd. Even Europens would be freaked out by a 4-week event. :-) But considering the actual event days are only half of the time wasted, 9 days is fair, 7 days is more fair, and 3 days is not fair. Remember that to "us" it seems that USans typically waste 50 weeks at the office, rendering the complaints about a few too many days of quality time a bit silly. :-) ... Johan
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