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Subject: Re: World Computer Chess Championship in North America.. revised

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:30:17 07/16/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 19:28:08, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 16, 2002 at 19:22:18, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>[snip]
>>A very strong message is sent by simply having a successful event.  The ICCA is
>>of the opinion that computer chess is dead outside of Europe.
>
>Why not get the ICCA involved?  Why can't they officially sanction it?

They won't allow it to be a WCCC, because they already have that set up for next
year, presumably because Donninger asked for the 2003 event last year, and the
ICCA said yes, without exploring the possibility of doing an event in North
America, because computer chess outside of Europe is dead.

bruce




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