Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:37:19 11/19/03
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On November 19, 2003 at 05:02:11, Amir Ban wrote: >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. Does that not say something? > > >>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. The 1995 WCCC event had IBM money in it, if you will investigate. IBM put quite a bit of money into ACM events. IE the last event I played in was the "ACM International Computer Chess Championship" in cape may, NJ in 1994. IBM put up most of the money for that event also, as they did in 1995 in Hong Kong. >Intel did a lot of sponsorship in the 90's but I have it firsthand that they are >definitely not doing it any more. I've had it "firsthand" that they would be willing for the right kind of event. Not to pay Kasparov 200K to play however. > >Amir > > >> >> >>> >>> >>>>Does it not help to look at both sides of the issue? >>>> >>>>MH
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