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Subject: Re: "World" Championship in North America ... Semi-Formal Announcement.

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 15:02:41 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.

Now there will be 2.

>
>The ICCA didn't just declare itself to be in charge of sanctioning the world
>championship -- this was worked out with FIDE years ago.
>
>bruce

Why should anyone care about what the ICCA worked out with FIDE years ago?



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