Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 18:35:11 12/14/03
What changes to the WCCC would make it better? A few suggestions to help get the ball rolling: 1- A better TD. 2- Holding it in North America every once in awhile would certainly help. 3- A process applied _prior_ to the event to _all_ participants certifying it is not a clone. 4- A process applied _prior_ to the event to _all_ participants certifying it can follow all the rules of chess in a satisfatory manner e.g. draw offers, draws by repetition, draws by the 50 move rule, resignation procedure, etc. and anything else I can't think of all without operator interferance. 5- Only require the program author to attend on the last couple of rounds (a weekend), so that the impact on the program author's bank account, job, family life and/or other obligations is minimized. For example, a local volunteer would handle the earlier rounds. Hiring a local "volunteer" should still be a more affordable option. 6- The organizer should offer the optional use of locally provided monitor, UPS and even entire systems including duals and quads. This would save the participant the cost and anguish of transporting the hardware and adapting it to local electrical power system, etc. This could be worked in as a possible source of advertising revenue from computer hardware retailers or manufacturers. 7- Local "zonal" events to pick qualifiers for the main event, which could then have a fixed number participants in a round robin.
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