Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 12:01:15 12/12/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 10:00:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 12, 2003 at 03:11:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On December 12, 2003 at 01:53:04, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>On December 12, 2003 at 01:40:25, Johan de Koning wrote: >>> >>>>On December 10, 2003 at 10:36:44, Matthew Hull wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 10, 2003 at 02:46:34, Johan de Koning wrote: >>>> >>>>>>c) lots of wasted time and I loved every minute of it. >>>>> >>>>>Is this the European way or just the ICGA way? >>>> >>>>My point was that the WCCC is an event. >>>>An event by & for humans, not by & for computers. >>>>Barking madness, as you call it, is part of the event. >>>>Technicalities (organizational and electrical) are part of the event. >>>>They can be discussed, but still they are technicalities. >>>> >>>>Humans are pretty smart (even the ones that fail to agree with me :-). >>>>They can easily survive and multiply with only 1 hour "work" per day. >>>>The rest of their lives is about wasting time (aka money) in an >>>>enjoyable manner. Creating a chess program is enjoyable. Pitting it >>>>against others is enjoyable, and even if it isn't, learning why not >>>>is enjoyable. Going to the movies is enjoyable. And finally, joining >>>>the WCCC *can* be enjoyable. >>>> >>>>However, optimizing an event like the WCCC for time is like compressing >>>>LotR for a 22' time slot: an interesting challenge, but a completely >>>>different thing. And while I'm with the analogy, [snipped more blah]. >>>> >>>>... Johan >>> >>> >>>I completely grok what you are saying. However, the happy medium between a >>>leisurely event and an efficient, cost-effective event must be balanced >>>according to the needs of the _World's_ participants with the primary goal of >>>the event in view. Instead, it seems to us that they are balanced by only >>>considering the needs of Europeans (and relatively near nieghbors) who have >>>loads of liesure time to burn. >> >>There were quite a number of Canadians in the conference during that period. So, >>it seems that the problem is not with the Europeans and their near neighbors, >>but with Americans. > >A question. Did they stay the entire 1.5 weeks, or did they come for a >day or two or three to present something, and then leave? That's an >important factoid, as it is related to the "time" issue I have raised for >so many years... Schaeffer and Marsland were there for the whole 10 days. I have a hard time imagining that Schaeffer's courses are any less important than yours... > >> >>There was *unfortunately* very little time to waste in Graz. I emphasize >>"unfortunately", because I enjoyed every minute of the "wasted" time. Dave >>Gomboc from Canada (which for some reason mistook the Austrian autumn for >>Canadian summer!), will also tell you how enjoyable the event was :) >> >> >>> >>>Matt
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