Author: Amir Ban
Date: 00:15:20 05/15/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 20:03:35, Matthew Hull 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 ? > > >Right, what commercial product wants to get beat by crafty? It's bad for >marketing to loose to the likes of Zappa and bodo. Then people like Vincent and >GCP couldn't show up here slamming the professor. > Make up your mind: Is crafty the menace that keeps everyone important from CCT or is CCT the all-inclusive tournament ? I don't understand why I should be scared of meeting crafty at CCT, but not scared of meeting it at WCCC. Crafty's been there in previous WCCC most of the time. >:) > > > >>It's not a major event. > > >Nonesense. 50 programs is a huge event. Much bigger than some expensive, >exclusive, back-yard barbecue at the ICGA. > There are thousands of players at Biel, only a dozen at Wijk an Zee. So what ? When was the last time Kasparov, Polgar, Anand played in Biel ? >No. If they thought they could win, they would show up. Remember? ;) > >Americans don't show up in Europe because it's expensive. Commercial European >projects don't show up at the FREE, no-expense CCT because they are chicken. > > >> >>CCT is a bit like Biel: crowded and noisy, with a few good players. But don't >>mistake Biel for Wijk an Zee. > >Programs don't care how much noise there is. Just come and play. You can't >stand it if bodo competes with you? I thought the Championship was open to all? > Oh, only those who are well-off to afford $2000 travel. > America is not a third-world country, and the problem with your argument is that it works even better for real third-world countries, i.e. that Tanzanian program would be the world's best, if only its author could afford to write it. >How inclusive. > >:) > >> >>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. > > >Many Nations have easy access to Europe. America is not easy or cheap for >Europeans to access. It's simple economics. > "Easy access" ? Is this a geographical fact I didn't know ? Anyway, this must be the reason your major universities Harvard, Stanford, Yale etc. are intellectual backwaters without foreign students, who all go to European universities. Not. Amir > > >> >>Amir
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