Author: Tony Werten
Date: 23:42:05 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 22:13:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 18, 2003 at 16:20:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On November 18, 2003 at 16:11:38, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>Of course not. But traveling to europe EVERY YEAR FOR A DECADE is somewhat not >>>feasable/justifiable from a financial and/or marketing POV. >>> >>>Now, if the event were in North America every other year, the picture is very >>>different from a News-coverage/marketing standpoint. It is much easier to get >>>sponsors for high performance, high-tech engineering involvement. And it is >>>much easier to engage global media interests in the USA. >> >>Besides, if this is true, why is there no serious event in the US? >> >>I've said it before and I'll say it again: if the event would be in the >>US instead of Austria, I'd still go in a hartbeat. And so would Brutus, >>Fritz, Shredder, Diep, Junior and if I'd have to guesw, probably ParSOS >>and Falcon too. >> >>We want to _play_. We don't care _where_ it is! >> >>Is that so hard to understand? >> >>-- >>GCP > >You are making this into a personal war. It is not. It is just a simple >contractural problem that the ICCA / ICGA has blatantly chosen to disregard. >I was a charter member of the ICCA, formed in 1977 in Toronto. The charter >_specifically_ mentioned the WCCC event to be held every three years, >alternating between Europe and North America. The ICCA broke that contractural >agreement years ago and have been doing so ever since. No Bob, they stopped doing that a couple of years ago. They found it was easier to take that line out of the charter. Tony > >If they would drop the "you pay our way over there" fee stuff, sponsors are >available. IBM has been great for computer chess. Intel also. Probably AMD >could become interested. Remember who sponsored the fritz vs kasparov match >and where it was held. So interest _is_ here. But the ICGA actively organizes >things in Europe, but says "someone else has to do it if it is going to be done >in the US." > >I've reached the point where I don't care. I won't be renewing my membership, >and I'll continue to play in ICC events as they come up, or any other event that >looks reasonable. But I'm not taking two weeks off from classes to go to >Europe, to play in a chess event. > >The internet is _too_ handy...
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