Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 07:15:25 10/27/97
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On October 27, 1997 at 08:51:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 27, 1997 at 08:11:25, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>On October 26, 1997 at 13:20:31, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi all: >>>If am not wrong it seems that Bert Seifrit, from gambitsoft, is in Paris >>>specially for looking at the tournament and he will give some info in >>>his site, Gambitsoft.com. Don't know the speed oof it, but better than >>>nothing... >> >>Then he may find it difficult to get into the tournament. The Paris >>Bourse is like Fort Knox. Totally surrounded by locked iron fence. You >>need a special pass and a security guard to get in or out. >> >>This tournament was not made with the public or even interested >>spectators in mind. >> >>Chrid Whittington > >Chris: > >anyone there that can email me results on a round-by-round basis? I can >keep a cross-table and post it frequently. I am getting around 30-40 >emails >per day asking about what is going on. To this point, I know *nothing* >after >two rounds are done... The words fucking annoying spring to mind :) No I know nothing either, apart from a posting that said CSTal won its first game. For some reason Thorsten has gone incommunicado. I will beat him about the head with a wet fish for this. On day one there was no telephone line or modem for communication. Apparently Mattias Faust (?) of the Fritz team is going to send the games by PGN to Friedel for publishing. But where or when is unknown to me. And without a modem connection, he will ahve a problem. Plus two days before the tournament they had no boards or clocks, these were panic hired at the last minute; plus he 233's turned out to be 200's. Its the usual disorganised shambles. Yoou'ld have thought they'ld have learnt from Jakarta and Paderborn, and appointed (as at AEGON) someone on full-time www support. Note the icca pages haven;t been updated for days, and still says the Blitz tourney is on Monday. Actally the blitz in on Saturday, and Sunday is the last day. So anybody planning to attend for Monday, don't (if you could get in anyway, of course). Chris Whittington > >Bob
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