Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 23:44:21 12/13/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 08:54:47, Matthew Hull wrote: >On December 12, 2003 at 03:11:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>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 with the primary goal of >>>the event in view. 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. >> >>There were quite a number of Canadians in the conference during that period. > >Were they there for the entire WCCC event? Several were, while others were there for "only" 6 or 7 or 8 days. And the same applies to a lot of Japanese. Now I know you're going to reply that people like that obviously don't have proper jobs. And that Canadians are merely Europeans living on the wrong continent. Both of which can be defended. But you chose the 1-line approach. It was a gamble: you lost. :-) ... Johan
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