Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:20:25 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 17:22:08, Matthew Hull wrote: >On November 18, 2003 at 17:11:12, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>> >>>If the WCCC had continued to be held in North America, you would have seen a >>>continued interest from the university in fielding technology to participate in >>>the challenge. We would see more research as we did in the '80s, and knowlegde >>>would have an opportunity to be shared and increased. >>> >>>Hold this same event in North America and people here will care. >>> >> >>hm, that might be true. But why didn't you manage to organize at least one >>important tournament in the States? I mean the WCCC is not all, there is Leiden, >>Paderborn and so on. >> >>now it's held in Europe and people _here_ do care. :-) > > >It's one thing if we all lived within six or seven hundred miles of each other, >like in Europe. But the miles go up and the practicality goes down here in the >US. That's one factor. The other factor is that NET events make so much more >sense anyway, especially since North Americans tend to be individualists and >somewhat less gregarious (perhaps) than Europeans. Besides, look how many US >entries there are for CCT6, which are more than any other country so far with >likely more to come. > >I don't think GCPs arguments about lack of interest over here hold water. > >MH Speaking for myself, they don't. My first chess program played its first legal move in 1968. I am _still_ active. Who has more interest than that? > > > >> >>regards Joachim
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