Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:41:09 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 10:25:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 18, 2004 at 10:12:21, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>On May 18, 2004 at 09:30:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On May 18, 2004 at 09:20:37, Mark Winands wrote: >>> >>>This is very cool! >>> >>>ALL REGISTER !!!!!!! >> >> >>The money would be better spent making the event attendable remotely instead of >>forcing people to spend $2000-$3000 on travel and burning two weeks of paid (or >>unpaid) leave. > >what is this for nonsense? > >Average professor travels the world for conferences each weekend. It's not a weekend event. > >I bet average professor claims from his university like 200000 dollar a year >expenses just for travel. > >In Netherlands average professor claims 100k euro a year. The USA is not like Euorope. In the USA, professors must work for a living. If you don't work, you don't eat. > >And all those professors travel daily. Whatever country. Travel travel to >conferences. > >So why not a few days world champs? So how does that help someone like Bruce Moreland? > >You are complaining without having even a program yourself. > >Car dealers also do not market just online. instead they compete in car races >too. And that costs them hundreds of millions of dollars. > >Here you can join very cheaply. That's stupid. $2000-$3000 to attend a tournament that could have been arranged to attend for free, like CCT? > >Getting 500$ for free to visit israel even!!!!!!!! $500 does not cover 1/4 of the cost. Therefore it's not free. > >4 star hotel for just 60 dollar a night!!!!!!! > >Imagine. > >And you are complaining? > >You are a nerd! You can't add. > >>> >>>Hyatt's operator perhaps can even get this? Then i bet a long list of >>Israeli's >volunteers to operate for him. >>> >>>If he has the *guts* to join anyway. >>> >>>>The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance to 12 amateur Chess >>>>programmers to assist them with the cost of their air tickets. >>>> >>>>Early Registration Deadline Extension: June 1, 2004 >>>> >>>>Register at: >>>>http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/wccc2004/ >>>> >>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- >>-- >>>>12th World Computer Chess Championship >>>>Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel >>>>July 4th-12th 2004 >>>> >>>>The ICGA is delighted to announce that today we have signed a contract with >>>>Bar-Ilan University, Israel, for them to host the 2004 World Computer Chess >>>>Championship. >>>> >>>>The planning of this event has been in progress for some time and every >>effort >>is being made to ensure that the participants will enjoy their visit >>to Israel. >>The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance to 12 amateur >>Chess >>programmers to assist them with the cost of their air tickets. >>>> >>>>An excursion to Jerusalem will be arranged by the ICGA during the event. >>There >>will also be ample opportunity for participants to enjoy themselves >>during the >>evenings as the games will start earlier than at previous events. >>>> >>>>In parallel with the World Computer Chess Championship the ICGA will be >>>>organising the 9th Computer Olympiad and the 4th International Conference, CG >>>>2004 on Computers and Games, both of which will also take place at Bar-Ilan >>>>University. >>>> >>>>The event will be supported, amongst others, by the City of Ramat-Gan, Intel >>>>Israel, Israel's Ministry of Tourism, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Mercury >>>>Interactive, IBM Israel and Pitango. >>>> >>>>The format for the 12th World Computer Chess Championship WCCC2004 will be: >>>>11-round Swiss. The Tournament Director of the WCCC will be Professor Jaap >>van >>den Herik from the Computer Science Department of the Universiteit >>Maastricht. >>The deadline for early registration of the WCCC2004 is June 1, >>2004.
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