Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:19:07 11/19/03
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On November 19, 2003 at 09:00:45, Aaron Tay wrote: >On November 18, 2003 at 18:57:31, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On November 18, 2003 at 15:30:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>I'd love to take part in the (Open) US Championship. If there was any. >> >>I'd love to take part in the (Realistically Open) World Computer Chess >>Championship. If there was any. > >> >>Besides, if the US Championship was open, it wouldn't be the US Championship >>anymore. It would be more like, the US Open (which I'd like to see also). > >Would that be "realistically open" to the europeans? we used to have a pretty good "exchange rate". The WMCCC events were almost always in Europe. The ACM events were always in the US. The WCCC events used to alternate. The same people went to all of them (I didn't go to WMCCC events as nobody considered the Cray as a microcomputer, of course). :) The problem is that if you alternate it, nobody feels "left out". But if it is _always_ in Europe, non-Europeans begin to ask "Why do _I_ have to pay all the travel expenses, take extended time off from work, etc? _every_ time there is a WCCC event?" It's a reasonable question. The ECCA is going a good job for European computer chess. We either need a NACCA group, or a true ICCA group (true means truly "international"). The current group is simply not living up to their original goal.
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