Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 15:50:05 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 18:07:09, Russell Reagan wrote: >On May 14, 2004 at 13:11:21, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On May 14, 2004 at 12:32:26, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>On May 14, 2004 at 12:16:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On May 13, 2004 at 20:17:42, Russell Reagan wrote: >>>> >>>>>Not anyone can play. Only people who have several thousand dollars and two >>>weeks >>to burn can play. I don't know many people in that situation, or at >>>least if >>they are in that situation and participated, the locks would be >>>changed when >>they returned home from the trip :) >>>> >>>>FYI, travel costs and hardware are sponsored by the organisation. >>> >>>No, they are not. $2000 dollars is not sponsored by the organization, neither >>>the hotel, nor the paid time off for two weeks. The entire situation is >>>calculated to discourage American participation. The physical format is >>>calculated to permit cheating, as was done with the illeagal throwing of a >>>drawn game to the eventual "winner". It is a corrupt establishment designed to >>>cater to European interests, and to snub Americans. >>>It is therefore an irrelevant contest, just like the FIDE World Championship is >>>completely irrelevant. >>>:) >>> >>>CCT is now the venue for true WORLD comptetition, instead of just European >>>competition. >> >>No it is not European competition. >>Israel is not in Europe and some programs from Israel are going to participate. > >According to Omid, Israel is a part of Europe in sports. I'm sure that will >(convieniently) not apply here, because chess isn't really a sport, it's more of >a game, so in computer chess, Israel is not a part of Europe, and therefore this >tournament is truly "interational". The definition of an "international tournament" is a tournament that is open for all nations. This is the case here. If participants from a certain country choose not to participate, that doesn't make the tournament any less international. And for you information, so far we have one registered WCCC participant from Africa. I hope you don't annex that continnent to Europe as well. And for the Olympiad there are participants from Asia Pacific, hardly part of Europe.
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