Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:20:27 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 15:26:03, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >Enrique, > >The point for the Dutch protesting players is not that of nationality as you >state, My point was not one of nationality. I wondered why Bosboom and van der Sterren refused to play. It seemed clear to me that there is some sort of divorce between the federation and the players regarding the participation of Fritz. > fear of computers, losing their rating (both you didn't suggest, but it >was suggested by others in this thread) but the absolute shameless way the Dutch >Chess Federation pushed through its will. > >That's the way you deal with kids, not with professional chess players who >earned a *ticket* for a championship, and were raided by their own chess >federation. > >As the KNSB made a mock of players rights, also in a board meeting where >questions were answered in a way like "don't you interfere, we know better, it's >for your own good", I think the Dutch federation gets what it breeded: treat >them like kids, they will react like obstinate kids. You make it sound as a unanimous rebellion of the chess players, but Piket did play and van Wely and van der Wiel have been very critical towards Bosboom today. Seen from the outside, the whole thing looks pretty foggy, to me at least. Enrique >I hate to see a nice experiment going down like this. Fritz deserves better. >Dutch chess deserved better. > >It's always the national chess federation; I fled RGCP for the USCF stories but >now find myself back in a same association. > >Jeroen ;-}
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