Author: Amir Ban
Date: 02:02:11 11/19/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 21:55:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 18, 2003 at 20:11:23, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On November 18, 2003 at 15:36:21, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>On November 18, 2003 at 15:30:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On November 18, 2003 at 13:47:44, Russell Reagan wrote: >>>> >>>>>Looks like a strong field for the European Championship this time around. >>>> >>>>I'd love to take part in the (Open) US Championship. If there was any. So stfu. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP >>> >>> >>>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. >> >>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. >> >>Amir > >Who exactly sponsored the recent Kasparov vs Fritz match? Where was that >held? > Well, see if X3D is willing to sponsor a WCCC. They already met Levy twice, and nothing came out of it. >Sponsors are available. They always have been. IBM supported computer chess >for years and years. As did Intel. Etc. IBM didn't sponsor anything IIRC, and they are now out of chess altogether. Intel did a lot of sponsorship in the 90's but I have it firsthand that they are definitely not doing it any more. Amir > > >> >> >>>Does it not help to look at both sides of the issue? >>> >>>MH
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