Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:23:53 08/31/01
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On August 30, 2001 at 23:43:48, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On August 30, 2001 at 18:21:39, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Why do we have to sock it to the rich guys anyway? Just because we know that >>they have deep pockets? >> >>Why not charge everybody $50 for admistrative costs and let it go at that? >> >>Is there some reason that the professionals should be punished? >> >>Make the entry fee the same for everyone. > >Then the entry fee would be relatively high, and there would consequently be >less entrants. Also, remember that the ICCA has a journal to publish: from the >financial perspective, it's important for them to generate money from their >championship tournament to support that. > >Dave This is something I don't like. It would seem to me that the ICCA membership fee ought to pay for the journal. Or else the fee is too low, or the journal is too expensive. If the ICCA is going to charge a fee, that ought to be used to buy the trophies/plaques/etc, for example, rather than being a necessity for the journal to continue. I would be just as happy to see the journal become a semi-annual thing, to cut the cost of membership to get more members. That would drive the journal cost down rather quickly. IE the opposite of taxes. The more you tax a group, the more leave the group, making you tax the remainder even more, until there is nobody left to tax. The ICCA is headed in that direction, when there are other computer chess organizations with more members, in spite of their not being world-wide organizations. The ICCA ought to try to figure out how to increase the active membership. Events outside of Europe would be one positive step. Perhaps even going to an "electronic journal" to eliminate all the publication costs would be another.
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