Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 15:05:32 11/19/03
Some items: 1. There has been no physical CC event in North America since 1994; the ICCA/ICGA in that time has helped organize muliple events, mostly in Europe, but none in the western hemisphere. 2. The Association for Computing Machinery apparently no longer has an interest in CC, at least not the point of helping to organize or sponsor events in the US. 3. The United States Chess Federation is in dire financial straits and may not be around in another year, so it is unlikely to assist with CC events. Indeed, for the past two decades the USCF has made plenty of cash by selling CC software and hardware but as far as I can remember has done little to assist with organizing or sponsoring CC events. 4. Money and other resources that in the past have assisted with North American CC tournament events appear to have, in part, been switched to one human vs one machine publicity events that do little to help either existing or aspiring authors. ---- I propose that if we, the North American CC authors and researchers, continue to wait for others to resume organizational assistance, then we will be waiting for a long, long time. I say that we should establish a North American CC Association. It would include a website, a journal, and a mandate to organize periodic CC events in North America for North American authors.
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