Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:50:38 12/02/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 16:19:58, Amir Ban wrote: >On December 02, 2003 at 10:18:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 02, 2003 at 03:34:31, Roberto Nerici wrote: >> >>>>>>July 4. >>>>>>What a bunch of morons. >>>>> >>>>>Would have you gone anyway? >>>>> >>>>>Roberto/. >>>> >>>>Perhaps if the ICGA provided flak vests. Bruce has attended recent >>>>events. As have others over here. I am not the _only_ USA computer >>>>chess person, you know??? >>> >>>Of course I know. >>>You forgot to mention Charles and James (Noonian and Insomniac), both of whom >>>have also attended a recent WCCC. >>> >>>My point is that I don't believe you would go to an event in Israel regardless >>>of the date. I don't know if you would go to a WCCC outside North America, >> >>I have attended an event in London, I flew to Paris in 1984 to do a chess >>demo. I have gone to Canada. And I have traveled multiple times to Europe >>over the past N years. I was even at the _first_ WCCC event although I did >>not participate, in Sweden. >> >>My problem is time. how to take about 2 weeks off from classes? The events >>are now too long. What is the point in 11 rounds with 16 participants? Makes >>absolutely no sense at all. It just drags out the event and triples the >>cost and time. We don't have 2 week conferences anywhere. Care to guess why >>that is? >> > >All the university professors I know take off for 2 or so weeks for wherever as >a matter of routine. _none_ I know do this. A semester lasts for 14-16 weeks depending on the school. 2 weeks is 1/8 of a semester. Is it reasonable to just dump 1/8 of a course? Not to me... I won't speak for other universities, but I have a bit more sense of responsibility than that, personally... > >I'm also pretty much in the corporate scene and trips by executives for 2 weeks >are nothing unusual. Actually it's the corporate way of life. Corporate executives are not writing computer chess programs... > > >> >> >>>regardless of the exact location, the amount of money provided or the date, but >>>you have posted about this sort of thing _many_ times and the impression I have >>>got is that you would not. >>> >>>If any of the above, or any other US engine author, would go to WCCC12 if it was >>>on another date, then that would be a shame and I would be interested to read a >>>post by them. >>> >>>Roberto/. >> >>Again, the date is not the _only_ issue. It is a minor one. The time is >>the main issue, followed closely by the cost. For example, in the ACM events >>we alternated east coast and west coast. I managed to make it to almost all. >>One in Nashville TN was close. One in LA was a long trip. Next year NYC. >>Close. Seattle. Long trip. We balanced it and always had more local >>participation than remote participation. But it fostered the interest, which >>was the _point_. >> >>The ICGA used to do that as required by the charter. Somewhere that went >>in the tank. > >So there are three continents: the East United States, the West United States, >and the Rest of the World (called Europe for short) ? You don't teach geography, >I guess. There are two continents mentioned in the ICCA charter. Europe and North America. My geography is perfect in that sense. East/West USA was what we did for the ACM events which were _not_ WCCC events at all. They started as the US chess championships, then became the North American computer chess championships, and when a few Europeans started to come, it became the International Computer Chess Championships. But it was hosted and paid for by the ACM, which is a US organization. > >Notice that the event is being held in Asia for the third time in a decade. It >happens to be the largest and most populous continent. And that is good, because the charter didn't include them since there were no competitors from Asia back when. But excluding North America is still an issue... > >Amir
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