Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 18:50:32 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 18:50:05, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >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. I'm glad to hear it. It would be great if everyone could have a chance to participate. Currently they do not. We poke fun at the "world championship" being largely a European event because that's what it is. Demonstrating that there are participants from outside Europe doesn't get at the heart of the issue. I hope that steps are taken to make this situation better in the future. I realize there is no solution that will satisfy everyone, but there are surely better alternatives to the current format. I imagine there would be quite a bit of interest if there were online qualifiers to ensure that only legitimate contenders actually had to travel to the WCCC finals. And at that point, instead of offering twelve $300 assistances, you could offer significantly more to the fewer number of qualifying participants who actually demonstrated the need for such assistance. Look at the interest in CCTs. Imagine how much more interest there would be in an ICGA backed online event, or series of qualifying events. You could even make CCT into the qualifier. Imagine more participants than any computer chess tournament has ever had, which also includes the top programs in the world. That's what we're talking about. The ICGA instantly holds the biggest and best tournament in computer chess history, makes the cover of Chess Life and is covered by all manner of other news publications. It would also be a good start to repairing the bad blood with us North Americans. Those who feel left out because they can't (practically) participate get to participate, and most of us won't have anything to complain about anymore, because most of us wouldn't have a strong enough program to qualify for the WCCC finals :) The number of complainers is suddenly reduced to a handful who have strong programs but cannot participate due to financial hardship, and hopefully those handful could be provided adequate financial assistance to participate. That's one idea anyway. It seems like a win for everyone involved.
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