Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:08:00 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 15:20:22, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On July 31, 2001 at 14:31:34, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >Hi Bruce, > >>1) A boycott makes the event less rich, gives a title to Chessbase for free, >and perhaps makes sponsors even more wary about supporting this thing. It's >also just a whiney and non-productive thing to do. Someone boycotts every >damned year, and it's gotten boring. > >Why? I think a boycott is a good way to start to clean up things. Why give in >and let them do the bullshit over and over again? Attending at this WMCCC will >tell them 'continue like this, I don't mind'. It's ICCA's fault and in this way >the sponsors know they are dealing with a shaky organisation that is not >interested in the benefit of computer chess and its programmers. > >A 'war' can't be won by giving in and let those guys do whatever they want! We >should protest and NOT attend to this WMCCC to MAKE them listen to its members. > > >>3) Loud bitching (my normal mode of action) makes sponsors wonder what in the >>hell kind of idiot lunatics they are sponsoring, so perhaps they won't pay up >>next time, as well as doing *absolutely no good*. I've been trying to get very >>simple things changed for *years*, and nothing *ever* happens. The rules for >>when you can change your time are stupid, and I point this out every time, but >>every year someone just does copy/paste on the previous year's rules. If >>something as trivial as that won't change, how will anything else change? > >Why bother about the sponsors? Why think that nothing will change? If nobody's >coming to Maastricht (besides some CB programs), this is hurting the ICCA >financially in a very bad way, so they HAVE to listen. To lie down, accept your >fate and say nothing will work is NOT the way. The ICCA needs a lot of programs, >the ICCA need the WMCCC to work, just to exist. If nobody shows up, they have to >change their attitude, otherwise they are bankrupt. > >Jeroen I'm sorry you guys didn't find out about the SMP thing. The whole thing is a mess, and you have a right to be angry about it. I think you are wrong to call for destruction of the event and by extension destruction of the ICCA, just because they botched the event. This will be my sixth ICCA event and Rebel has boycotted two of them. That's too many. You guys can choose to either do the best you can under these bad circumstances or you can try to take a big chunk out of organized computer chess. I hope that you'll put aside your own anger and show up at the event, if this is all that's keeping you away. If you won't show up, I hope that you won't try to encourage others to cancel their own plans. bruce
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