Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 08:43:29 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 11:35:28, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On May 18, 2004 at 11:26:20, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On May 18, 2004 at 10:33:26, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>>What good is a conference if people can't afford to attend? >>> >>>But people *do* attend. Almost all major conferences across the world require >>>physical presence, and people from all over the world take part. There is no >>>substitute for physical presence. Don't forget that even though the programs >>>compete in this tournament, it is an event for programmers (humans), not for >>>machines... >> >>Not everybody has computer chess programming for a living and an employer >>willing to cover the costs and time. >> >>Besides I really don't think you can compare all "conferences" like that, just >>call it a conference and suddenly personal attendance is required? >>At which point did a computer chess tournament become a conference? >> >>As far as I know it is about playing 11 rounds of chess, if there is computer >>chess conference I'll like to know who is giving lectures and what the topics >>are. > >There is a Computer Games conference held here together with WCCC and Olympiad, >but let's focus on the chess example you mentioned. Many people attend the Biel >tournament. Why should they be physically present? Why don't they held the >tournament online, when all the technology is available? > >And as we are talking about a world championship event here (WCCC), why >shouldn't FIDE hold the World Chess Championship online? Because there are human factors present in human events. Computers don't have human factors. > > > >> >>-S.
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