Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:18:34 05/18/04
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On May 17, 2004 at 00:12:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >There was great discussion when we started adding a 5th round to ACM events. >Because it makes it harder and harder to take off to participate. Now we are at >two weeks. By 2020 it will be a full-time year-round job it would seem... > >You should _first_ decide who you are trying to attract, then define the event >that will do this. Not first worry about how many rounds and how to occupy two >weeks, and then see who will come... If the WCCC had started at 2 weeks, it >would not have survived the first event. Where this "idea" came from is beyond >me. At least through 1989 they were 5 rounds period. And getting to them was >not a problem due to time off, and by bouncing between NA and Europe every 6 >years there was a WCCC "on continent" if you could not travel internationally >due to cost. > >But those were the days when the programmers were actually the people making the >decisions and running the organization. It's drifted far away from that... Hi Doctor Bob, fine that you asked me these important questions. Of course I have experienced answers. First of all human beings tend to adapt to a bigger slowness with getting older, this is simply physiology. What you could achieve in three days when you were young is only possible in 14 days if you are getting older. It can't be called redundance if I repeat this important Law. But we have a second Law which is often forgotten. It is hidden and kept under carpets because it insults our sane ego. Usually you get a serious job, a profession if you are getting older. So out of the former hobby you make a profession. If you would participate in a three or four days event, then the seriousness of the event couldn't be proven. Those fourteen days however are a proof as such that you have a serious job. And because it has become a job, a profession, it is not neccessary that the participants get recompensations during these 14 days. All programmers and operators are professionals, yes, we can call them businessmen. If you persoally dont want to participate, then it is a proof that you have found a different job or profession. Of course you can't do two jobs at the same time. NB also that those businessmen in computerchess must make the same money in fourteen days what you can make in a whole year!! Of course you can make more money in 14 days than in three days. This is obvious. ;) Yours truly, Logician Rolf
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