Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 16:34:33 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 18:50:05, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >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. If it is open in principle, but not "in practical", then it is a closed tournament. The event has been designed to be enormously more expensive and inconvenient for non-continentally contiguous nations to participate. This is done via the physical format which forces players to travel and participate in person, in spite of freely available technology that would allow dozens of participants from even more countries to participate remotely with no travel expense whatsoever. If the event were accessible remotely, then the ridiculous length of the event would not be an issue, niether would the expense and risk of travel be an issue. Since these remote measures are so simple to implement, it can only be concluded that the lack of these features is due to a desire to exclude those from more distant lands, namely America. Have a nice European Championship. We will follow it like we follow the FIDE world championship. :) The real world championship is now the CCT event. More programs from more nations participate, making it a true WORLD event, and not just a cozy little tourney for European commercial interests. > >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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