Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:59:56 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 20:45:59, Sune Fischer wrote: >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some outdated P4's). The ICGA uses this "sponsor fee" to (a) subsidize the ICGA journal which costs more to produce than membership fees pay, for some reason; (b) to allow ICGA folks to attend and have their bills paid, while the participants pay their own way. Doesn't make a _lot_ of sense, IMHO. > >>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. See CCT coming up. :) > >-S. >>Amir >>
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