Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 08:24:27 12/04/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 10:13:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 02, 2003 at 01:10:24, Johan de Koning wrote: > >>On December 01, 2003 at 11:24:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On December 01, 2003 at 10:14:20, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>http://www.icga.org/News/events/wccc2004/BarIlan.pdf >>>> >>>>12th World Computer Chess Championship >>>>Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel >>>>July 4th-12th 2004 >>> >>>July 4. >>> >>>What a bunch of morons. >>> >>>:) >> >>Given the smiley I'll grant you the benefit of the doubt, but in Global English >>it still is equivalent to "the ICGA board is a collection of [BLEEP]ing idiots". > >Let me be more specific, since it was apparently not clear enough: > >"the people running the tournament in Graz were a bunch of [BLEEP]ing >idiots". > >Most of that falling squarely on the TD I assume, although I was not present. > > > >> >>I know you know the I in ICGA and the W in WCCC. > >Yes. "I" somehow equates to "European".. > >This organization is _really_ the ECGA, not the ICGA. And the WCCC is really >the ECCC. World events are held all over the world. Continental events are >held on a specific continent. > >>And I hope you know that 98% of this world's population does not care about >>TG-day, nor about I-day, nor about Halloween, nor about UAb classes. > > >This isn't about "UAB classes". It is about taking off for 1.5 weeks from >_any_ job, spending a lot of money to trave, for room and food, and doing >it _every_ year/ every 3 years, since these events are _never_ held outside >Europe. There are other continents on this planet. But my stand here is well >known and won't change anything, except that something will come along to >replace ECGA with something containing a real I.. even if I means Internet. > > > > >> >>Think about the math: there's no way you can schedule an event without depriving >>at least someone of his favorite cultural event with only 365 >>weeks in a year. For 1-day weeks that is. > > >That is only a small issue. July 4 is minor. 1.5 weeks is major. Flying >half-way around the world to attend any ECGA event is expensive. _those_ >are the main points. Let's not turn this into a holiday issue exclusively. > >However, holidays _are_ important. And it is not hard to make a list >to include Christmas (world), Thanksgiving (USA), July 4 (USA), Boxing Day >(England at least, don't know how widespread), and so forth. Mark those >days _OFF_. There are plenty left. And there are other holidays that need >to be avoided from other countries as well. Conferences do this _all_ the >time. The ECGA could also, with a little thought. Every major chess open in US are played during holidays, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor day, Christmas etc. The only one that is not touched is thanksgiving. Miguel > > > > > >> >>>No doubt the 2005 event will be on December 25. >> >>An excellent excuse to avoid the end-of-year nuisance. >> >>>Is the ICCA going to supply flak jackets or do participants have to bring >>>their own? >> >>You know damned well the ICGA can't afford to supply flakjacks for every >>participant, and you know damned well that's the reason there will not be an >>I or W event in the US. :-D > >Yes there is. Because the ECGA is really not interested in hosting an event >over here, because suddenly _they_ might have to travel a bit more? But I'm >not that concerned myself. The CCT events are growing in popularity and the >ECGA events are waning. If nobody wants to turn that around, that is fine by >me. > > > > >> >>... Johan
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