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Subject: Re: 1998 WCCC and/or WMCCC sponsorship

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 10:51:17 07/19/98

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>Typically, most ACM tournaments try to provide some loaners for the
>contestants.  The world championship always has.  They would try to
>get several identical machines that were pretty fast.   I don't think
>you will have to worry about getting a machine.  In most of these
>tournaments 60 or 70 percent are running on the same provided hardware,
>a few bring their own and the rest are remote machines.
>
>To the extent I am able, I want to push for the tournament to be as
>low cost as possible for the contestants.   But the World computer
>chess championship has a long tradition of paying for airline
>tickets, no entry fee and paying for rooms.  I do not know if they
>will be able to do that this time.   If they cannot, then I will
>still try to help us keep the costs down.   My goal is to get as
>many to come as possible.
>
>- Don

Woops,

I didn't mean to say ACM tournaments, I meant ICCA sponsored
tournaments.

- Don



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