Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:04:33 05/02/00
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On April 30, 2000 at 20:08:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 30, 2000 at 14:24:06, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On April 29, 2000 at 03:20:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On April 28, 2000 at 23:27:22, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>> >>>>Is it not in the ICCA _charter_ that the event will alternate between North >>>>America and Europe? >>>> >>>>Can't some of the members (board, or however things are decided within the >>>>organization) do something about this violation of charter? >>> >>>I think they are probably being pragmatic. When they started I bet that they >>>thought they'd have an easy time finding sponsors. Now they have a hard time. >>>I don't know if this is because they aren't looking in North America or what. >>> >>>bruce >> >>How many places in North America are actively working on computer chess? >> >>WCCC 1989 was outside of Europe (in Edmonton, Alberta, with Tony and Jonathan). >>WCCC 1992 was in Europe. >>WCCC 1995 was outside of Europe (in Hong Kong). (Who sponsored that? IBM?) >>WCCC 1999 was in Europe. >>WCCC 200? would be a good time for it to return to North America. Maybe the >>USA? Who is active in computer chess there? >> >>At the risk of sounding like I want to pass the buck, I suggest that Bob >>investigate the possibility of UAB hosting it. >> >>Dave > > >I could do that trivially. The problem is that the ICCA wants about 36,000 >dollars delivered to them, which is not so easy to do... and that doesn't >count any travel allowance for participants or anything else... Something has to pay for the Journal to be published. Membership fees certainly won't do the job. Dave
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