Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 07:58:15 05/15/04
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On May 15, 2004 at 04:18:04, Uri Blass wrote: >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. >> >>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. > >Can we know the list of participants who registered? The list of participants will shortly be announced. > >Uri
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