Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:57:19 12/03/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 23:58:49, Will Singleton wrote: >On December 02, 2003 at 23:32:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 02, 2003 at 22:19:00, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>On December 02, 2003 at 20:34:12, Russell Reagan wrote: >>> >>>>On December 02, 2003 at 15:18:48, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>>> >>>>>That is great. Find sponsors and we will all come to Tulsa for WCCC 2005. >>>> >>>>I was thinking that if we found a sponsor, we could have a nice prize fund, >>>>completely pay for travel, lodging, and meal expenses for every participant, >>>>hire grandmasters to come and observe the event, fly in reporters to cover the >>>>event, and throw a big party with the thousands of dollars we have left over. >>>> >>>>But that's just me. The smart thing is probably to hand over all of that money >>>>to the ICGA so they can attend and ruin people's reputations and decide who wins >>>>the event. >>> >>>Funny. But we don't need a sponsor, we need an angel. And even angels expect >>>at least the remote possibility of a return. We are just too responsible and >>>efficient to produce chess tournaments. >>> >>>Will >> >>Actually we produced them from 1970 to 1994 without missing a single year. > >I am aware of that, Bob. :) That was then... > >Will What has changed? I'm still playing chess. So are others. I don't see where the purpose of a chess tournament is to make money, in the case of computer chess. It should accomplish two things: (1) promote computer chess participation and research. (2) provide some publicity for a vendor that chooses to supply one (or more) machines for use in that event. You might ask why did Cray support me for so many years? The free publicity they got. I used to have a scrapbook before I gave it to them, it had about 500 pages of stuff from the 1983 WCCC we won in NYC. Cover of Chess Life. New York Times stories. Computer World. Computer magazines of every flavor. Wire stories. We were on CBS news live doing a demo with Joel Benjamin. Etc. It seems that (1) has been forgotten by the ICGA. And they have added more bullets below 2, including (3) making money for the ICGA; (4) making money for local vendors; (5) etc. (1) gets lost in all that.
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