Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 22:29:55 05/28/00
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On May 27, 2000 at 03:44:17, Frederic Friedel wrote: >On May 26, 2000 at 21:49:42, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On May 26, 2000 at 18:39:58, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Maybe ICCA need us, but do we need ICCA? Reasons given by Bruce seems to me >>>devastating. Looks like ICC wants to kill himself -or itself?- with his mighty >>>parade of "we do not care of internet at all". >> >>I can bitch about the ICCA occasionally, but I'm glad it exists and I wish it >>was thriving, rather than slowly contracting. >> >>I think the situation might improve if people from the ICCA were more actively >>involved in places like this, Gambitsoft's forum, the CSS forum, etc. As is >>they inhabit the academic world, which isn't going to get you very far at two >>copies per university. >> >>They need to go where the people are, and there are a big bunch of them here. >>You are more likely to send money to someone if you know them, you know what >>they are up to, etc. >> > >Perhaps you remember, Bruce, around the time of the World Micro in Jakarta I >believ, when Marlsand, Beal and a couple of others from the ICCA tried to argue >some points on r.g.c.c. As was the case with many others it took a couple of >weeks for them to reach the decision never ever under any circumstances to visit >such a place again. A wrong decision no doubt, from the point of view of >recruiting some new members for the ICCA, but in some ways understandably if you >are not born with nerves of steel. With a few notable exceptions professors at >universities usually aren't. > >I'm sure you remember. I'm not so sure that it really is just about nerves. Part of it's also about benefit. With someone who's involved in producing commercial chess products, as a program author or a distributor or whatever, there's a certain amount of value to being present -- like advertising, in a way. That same value to an academic going about their research isn't there, but then again, it has validity in the context of a having a presence for ICCA, and I think there are other benefits that academics would get out of it. Dave
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