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Subject: Re: Trashed plans... North American Open 2003.

Author: Kevin Strickland

Date: 06:30:48 07/19/02

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On July 19, 2002 at 02:41:17, Russell Reagan wrote:

>I am sorry to hear this news Kevin. I appreciate everything that you have done
>already. You did a great job in getting people excited about computer chess in
>North America. It is a shame that some people do these kinds of things because
>1. We are on the internet and somehow that means we can all act like it's a 1st
>grade free for all, and 2. That people are too immature or selfish or full of
>pride or hate or whatever the reason is and find the need to do things like
>this.
>
>You are a better man than I, since I would have just posted the emails here to
>ruin the reputation of those who committed such hateful acts.
>
>I hope you don't leave, because not everyone here is bad. I guess it only takes
>a few bad ones to ruin it all though.
>
>Russell

I will not be leaving the CCC. That will not happen. I just will not spend
almost a year of my time organizing an event just to have someone in the wood
work trying to sabotage it.

On a side note I will not post the emails here. That is not my style. But I will
say that 75% of them came from out European counter-parts.

Since I slept on what happened yesterday I have come to a few conclusions:

1. People were just trying to push a few buttons.. trust me they did.
2. Some European's do not want a _successful_ tournament here. I am sure you can
easily see why. If we were to told a massive event here it would look bad that
only 20 participants show up there.
3. Maybe I should just continue and do what I want. Which is hold the event. I
seem to have support from the University of Alberta game group. That surely will
go a long way to not only having a venue for the event, but also in support to
organize it.

Kevin.



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