Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 16:08:17 06/28/99
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On June 28, 1999 at 17:32:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >Believe it or not, I don't think it matters if the sponsors give a hoot or not. >Personally, I have no idea how interested they were in the final game. I think >that a contest belongs to the audience and it belongs to the participants most >of all. Do you imagine that Nike actually cares about the athletic events that >they sponsor? Where did I say anything about sponsors ? I was talking about the icca. i don't think the icca sponsors this event. this event sponsors the icca. the event in paderborn was held anyway, no matter if icca is there or not. Therefore this event was somehow a concurrence to the icca-events. therefore icca has no interests to let this event continue. I thought the ICCA organises and helps computerchess. gives computerchess a destination and a future. I see, and before criticized that they are NOT doing this. That in fact they give their best NOT to organise anything. This organisation has a different reason and different pragmatic reasons to exist. mainly to feed some people and to legitimate them. In other words: a misuse for personal interests. and there are many misusing the misusers. If this is all about - for you - ok. But for me computerchess is the goal. and not how certain people legitimate what they do by doing something, and not doing it to the wealth of all participants - but for their own purpose. >If the ICCA really secretly hates computer chess I don't care as long as they >continue to sponsor the chess articles and contests. Somehow, I think that some >people in ICCA really do like computer chess. >[snip] Really. i am sure that without them, the tournament would have been as nice. and sponsored as good. despite the fact that this tournament was very good organised and very dramatic. i think a great plus for computerchess. but your point of view is too extreme. they don't really hate computerchess. they only use computerchess for their own purposes. because they can live pretty much from it. it has established them in all the years. and it still helps to establish others. the participants are not that important (for them). they need them, yes. but for how long ? next events will be autoplayer stuff on ONE chessBase-user-interface done over night somewhere in iran or irak. :-))
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