Author: Christophe Jolly
Date: 11:00:35 10/30/97
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To "Gambit Site": >Text taken from the Gambit Site... >* The Paris stock exchange is well guarded. It is difficult to >get in, so there are nearly no visitors to the Championship. This was annunced by ICCA. Visitors must have been registered before. Chess tournaments don't interest many people. Not only in France, I guess. Do participants prefer ten persons watching and speaking behind them during all the game? Sure it would be a scandal too. >Even the owners of the two Paris chess shops do not seem >interested to go there! It's a desert! >* The tournament room is beautiful, but the air is very sticky, Bring a spray of perfume, poor boy. > and the tournament results are written by hand on a small piece > of paper which is stuck to the wall! As a consolation you can > watch the ups and downs of the share prices from the gallery! Results are written by hand during the round, when each game is finished. So you have instant-information. Do you want a complete live report by CNN? When the round is over, all participants are given the complete list of games in PGN format, and the rank of programs, printed by a computer-printer, yes!
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