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Subject: Re: WCCC 2003 Starting List

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 17:45:59 11/18/03

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On November 18, 2003 at 20:11:23, Amir Ban wrote:


>>How about holding the WCCC in the US for the next ten years.  I'm sure you'd be
>>OK with that, right?
>>
>
>The reason the WCCC is not held in the US is that there are no US event sponsors
>to be found. It's not because Europeans decided it won't be there.
>
>Find a US sponsor, and the event comes home to you. Personally, I agree that it
>will be in the US in any of the next 10 years when a sponsor is available.

What do we need a sponsor for?
As I understand it there is no prize money and people are supposed to pay for
traveling and hotels - even bring their own machinery (unless they want to use
some outdated P4's).

>I know that the ICCA negotiated to hold the event outside Europe in 2004, in
>Israel. The money and venue where there, but negotiations folded, as I heard it,
>due to an unreasonable demand by the ICCA.

What kind of demands kan ICCA possibly make, what do we even need them for?

Let's do it on the internet, 200+ winboard engines, dozen chessbase engines, a
bunch of UCI engines, Lokasoft, Chessmaster, everybody!

No hotels, no playing hall, no nothing, just a server.
This is 2003 not 1984, the time of the internet is upon us.

-S.
>Amir
>



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