Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:29:55 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. > >I bet average professor claims from his university like 200000 dollar a year >expenses just for travel. You are about as full of bullshit as anyone I have _ever_ known. We have about $2,000.00 per year per faculty member for travel. If you have federal funding you can ask the sponsoring agency for travel funds as part of the grant, but that is limited to about $5,000 per person and it can _not_ be used to attend what the fed would call an unnecessary computer chess tournament. Grow up and stop making things up... > >In Netherlands average professor claims 100k euro a year. Bullshit... > >And all those professors travel daily. Whatever country. Travel travel to >conferences. > >So why not a few days world champs? > >You are complaining without having even a program yourself. > >Car dealers also do not market just online. instead they compete in car races >too. And that costs them hundreds of millions of dollars. > >Here you can join very cheaply. > >Getting 500$ for free to visit israel even!!!!!!!! > >4 star hotel for just 60 dollar a night!!!!!!! > >Imagine. > >And you are complaining? > >You are a nerd! > >>> >>>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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