Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:40:25 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 18:35:44, Kevin Strickland wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 18:33:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>>Another reason not to have big prize funds: >>It would encourage cheating. There are enough problems with claims of cheating >>already. >> >>On the other hand, I think that sponsors could be very useful if they could fly >>people to the event who could not normally afford it. >> >>Imagine if chess engines from Uruguay and Africa could be present. Wouldn't it >>be nice if New Zealand and Australia and Viet Nam could be represented? >> >>I pretty much guarantee that you will get as many participants as free trips >>that you can arrange. So if you can cough up 100 plane fares, you will have 100 >>entrants for sure. > >I am absolutely sure I can arrange a _few_ plane tickets. But 100 seems like an >aweful lot of begging. The same cash as a $30,000 fee to start up an ICCA event would buy thirty $1000 plane tickets. That would take care of the majority of those who would have a problem. I would let the professional programs buy their own tickets. Maybe the chance to have 100 engines present will get some sponsors excited. Look at the stupendous pile of cash they are dropping on the Kramnik match. One tiny fraction of a sliver of that would fly every engine in the world to Canada.
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