Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 18:51:20 12/05/03
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On December 05, 2003 at 20:16:49, Amir Ban wrote: >The charter could also have said "every chess programmer will be happy, rich and >live to 105." It's not enforceable. Of course the USA/Europe alternation clause >meant "when possible". > >For the ICCA to even start talking to anyone, there needs to be someone who >wants to organize the event. The sponsors come later, and it's usually the >organizers who go out and find them. > >You are wasting your time complaining here. Go and convince someone to organize >the event. Find a mayor or a university dean and convince him that he wants the >event to come to him. Mayors are often particularly good at raising, often from >people who don't even know how a chessboard look like, but will open their >wallets if the mayor says it's important. If possible, look for places where a >budget already exists for such cultural events (as in Graz. > >Good luck. So basicly, you want some of the participants themselves to _be_ the organizers that finds the sponsors that pays the ICGA to "sanction" the WCCC? :) That's a lot of money just to "sanction" something while leaving the hard work to be done by others, don't you think? IMO it would be more logical if ICGA _were_ the organizers that found the sponsors and attracted the participants, e.g. with prize founds or other goodies. I'm pretty sure USA is a good market for finding sponsors, from what I hear the bucks are bigger over there, it's easier to find people willing to take financial risks. Nah, on second though, I don't want to advocate along that line at all. I think the way of the future for the WCCC is to hold it on the Internet. To give it a world wide audience and participation. Until now I think the main counter-argument has been that it would be harder to eliminate cheaters on the internet, but given the recent List ordeal (cheater or not I have no idea) it seems that such problems/accusations will always be there in one form or another. Currently the CCT tournament is the closet we have to an internet world championship. Maybe it would be possible to arrange a match between the internet champion and the ICGA champion, to merge the waters so to speak? That is, unless Fritz wins them both of course. -S. >Amir >
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