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Subject: Re: Should we have a North American CC Association?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 16:17:41 11/19/03

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On November 19, 2003 at 19:01:05, Charles Roberson wrote:

>On November 19, 2003 at 18:21:16, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 2003 at 18:05:32, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>Some items:
>>>
>>>
>>
>>If you want a North America WCCC, then find the sponsors and the ICGA will hold
>>the event there. Simple as that.
>>
>
>    Hi Omid,
>
>       I agree, we should get sponsorship and have it here.
>       However, I see multiple issues here; not just a NA WCCC.
>         1) Many other countries (some smaller than many of the individual
>            states of the US) have their own championships.
>         2) There is a lot gained from meeting people face2face.
>         3) There are relatively few programs from the NA considering the
>            land mass and population size.
>         4) Interest in US Chess (human & computer) seems dropping.
>
>      Given that the Man-Machine matches get great ratings something more
>    public and more often may revive US interest. Thus, a yearly WCCC
>    (no matter where it is) and a NACCC (both very public) could help.
>    Increasing the number of events and making some of them very easy to
>    attend should spawn more interests/activity.
>
>      Some far reaching thoughts:
>         o state tournaments would be nice.
>         o two internet tournaments a year
>               both authors only(world attendance)
>               maybe only one world attendance.

Actually why not one tournament every month?! Why can't the CCT tournament be
held once a month, on a weekend?



>         o easier acceptance of computers in human tournaments

Well, I doubt it. With the computers becoming stronger every year, humans will
be more reluctant to play against them (i.e., lose to them).



>         o Annual face2face meeting -- may be a tournament or just a conference
>             I beleive there is an annual conference in Canada.

It would be fine. People complained that the ICGA WCCC is not held in NA. Even
if you don't find sponsors for the official ICGA event, other tournaments will
also be successful. Take the annual tournaments in Leiden or Padderborn as an
example.




>         o Some sort of annual fund for research.
>         o Blitz as well as long TC's. Seems the public might find G/15 more
>             enjoyable to follow.
>         o uniform platform for fast TC's and unlimited for the slower TC's.
>
>      The most watched sports are the ones with long seasons not just 2 events
>     a year.
>         o A computer (and human?) chess league with matches every weekend.
>           Each opponent has one match per weekend. Each match has multiple
>           games. For spectator purposes, say G/15. How long does an individual
>           tennis game (not match) last?

An internet CC league would be great IMO.



>
>         o Maybe multiple leagues split by world geography with the leaders of
>           each region meeting at the end of the season.
>
>       Lots more could be listed.
>
>   Charles



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