Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 17:43:01 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 20:31:25, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On May 14, 2004 at 18:26:54, Amir Ban 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's not. I will come to CCT to experiment, if I come at all. Others don't >>bother to show up, and why should they ? It's not a major event. >> >>CCT is a bit like Biel: crowded and noisy, with a few good players. But don't >>mistake Biel for Wijk an Zee. >> >>Which reminds me that no major chess tournament takes place in the USA nowadays. >>All the major tournaments are in Europe, but I don't hear you saying that >>Kaidanov and Stripunsky are the world's best. >> >>Amir > >Quite a few top chess events have been held in the U.S. - '95 Kasparov-Anand, >'89 or so Kasparov-Karpov, '99 FIDE knockouts, three man-machine championships. > >But no WCCCs. > >Ok it's probably just a coincidence - but IMO the complaints are understandable. > >Vas The complaints are understandable. Heck, *I* have a problem with it :) But the people claiming CCT has superceded the WCCC are simply living in a dream world . . . anthony
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