Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:02:34 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 17:49:16, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 12:09:11, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>Don't be duped into calling the tournament the North American Computer Chess >>championship. Calling it anything less than a World Championship will only >>lessen the prestige of the event and reduce sponsorship money. Calling it a >>World Championship will insure greater participation by the commercials, since >>if they fail to win the "other" WC, they can still win this one and that will >>help their advertising. The winner of the other WC will participate to prevent >>this and also participate to add a 2nd WC belt for their program. The more the >>better. >> >>Nobody corners the market on the World Championship name. If the other Wc does >>not like it, tough! It serves them right for not holding it over here in the US. >>Besides, on balance it will be good for computer chess. > >There is one world championship, and it is the ICCA world championship. As much >as I don't like it that the ICCA has not done a tournament in North America for >years, this is still true. > >The ICCA didn't just declare itself to be in charge of sanctioning the world >championship -- this was worked out with FIDE years ago. However, the ICCA championship has turned into the European championship. They can call it whatever they like, but it has been in Europe for the past decade, and the US engines have pretty well stopped going.
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