Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 21:53:54 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some outdated P4's). > >>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! We've been doing exactly this for 4 years now. The tournament gets bigger and stronger every year. http://www.vrichey.de/cct6/ -Peter
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