Author: Albert Silver
Date: 18:41:21 08/25/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 21:11:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On August 25, 2000 at 17:07:44, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>This years tournament has some very interesting games, and interesting results.
>>
>>There were many surprises, and some great results. As most expected, Shredder
>>won again ( Congrats Stefan ), and the ChessBase team did well. The Rebel Team
>>was fantastic, and showed a great deal of patience in games, and did rather
>>well. Congrats Ed and Christophe.
>>
>>James Robertson, and Rudolf Huber did very well with their programs. SOS did
>>better than most expected, and Insomniac, I think shocked everyone.
>>
>>ZChess did very well. Congrats to it's author.
>>
>>I guess the biggest surprise was the result of Crafty. I thought it would do
>>much better, but I don't really know what happened, but it seemed to struggle
>>almost every game. Maybe there was some sort of program or book error, but
>>regardless, I think many thought it would do much better. I did.
>>
>>So on to next year.
>>
>>I am very interested in getting together a group of people that would be
>>interested, and can devote a great of time to trying to get the tournament to be
>>held in North America.
>>
>>If anyone would be interested in this, please contact me. I have some great
>>ideas, and I think I can get them to be realized.
>
>
>
>I will not be able to devote time to help you, but I would like to see you
>organizing the event in Canada as you told us earlier, and I confirm I would
>come to this event in person, on my own expenses if needed.
>
>I hope you can find a sponsor for this and I believe that with a better Internet
>coverage the sponsor would not regret spending his money in the event.
>
>
> Christophe
The first potential sponsor to get is an airline company. Simply because
seats cost them very little to donate, and the contribution wouldn't be
insignificant. That's one of the places I'd start with in any case. Furthermore,
airlines usually have top-notch connections with hotels and could probably get
good deals. A computer company or store for the equipment... If it isn't all
tossed together at the last minute, I don't see why this wouldn't get off the
ground. Watching this latest WMCCC unfold and the conditions offered was
frightening.
Albert Silver
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