Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:15:03 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 19:06:25, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 18:33:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 16, 2002 at 18:27:24, Kevin Strickland wrote: >>[snip] >>>>5) There is no need for a prize fund. If you have excess cash, subsidize the >>>>beer. >>> >>>Now finally we can agree on something. Lower cost beer is something I dream >>>about daily. >> >>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. > >That is a lot of money to fly in the Europeans, who do not fly in the North >Americans, ever. > >This is another reason to make it a North American Open. Why fly people in from >Uruguay if it has some geographical connotation? > >Flying people around costs a lot of money, and I'd rather he actually do the >event than get caught up trying to raise plane fair for who knows who, and end >up choking to death. Maybe we could have a competition for free airfaire, by continent for the amateur programs. I don't think you neeed one for the USA or Canada, but perhaps have a contest for regions like: Region 1: Mexico/Central America/South America Region 2: Europe/former USSR Region 3: Africa/Australia/New Zealand/Oceania Top 4 finishers from each of those tournaments gets a free ticket. The ticket could be transferrable to another party, so that the winner might be magnanimous and give it to someone who can use it, if they can easily afford the trip. I would really like to see the Spanish programs and what about KnightCap? It only enters Australian contests. So it might be nice to make some way for them to go.
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