Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:50:02 10/30/97
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On October 30, 1997 at 14:00:35, Christophe Jolly wrote:
>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.
>
No offense, but what are you talking about? Are you claiming that the
programs will complain about the noise??? Perhaps you mean the poor
operators, who distraught by the excessive noise from the spectators,
suffer from a momentary lapse of dyslexy, and move the pieces in the
opposite direction. Visitors have to be registered first? That's the
most preposterous way of organizing an event that should be trying to
get as much publicity as possible and not acting as if: "gee, the
amount of spectators may be a problem, let's find a way to deter them."
>>Even the owners of the two Paris chess shops do not seem
>>interested to go there!
>
Under the circumstances I don't blame them. I can just see their faces
as they, professionally interested people, try to enter: "We're sorry
sir,
but you don't seem to have the necessary papers. Do you have your B
Slash
two oh four point 3 formulary with you? No? Then you'll have to file for
one immediately with a 6 to 8 week waiting period. Thank you for your
interest."
>It's a desert!
>
>>* The tournament room is beautiful, but the air is very sticky,
>
>Bring a spray of perfume, poor boy.
Great attitude.
>
>> 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?
No, but I kind of expexted the 'official' sites to have a little more
information. The ICCA site deserves no comment, and the Titus site is
truly worth laughing at. You think I'm being hard? To begin with, it
is consistently behind by several round. Second, the days (Monday,
Tuesday, etc...) that accompanied the rounds were actually wrong at
then corrected later. Then the 8th round pairings were announced as
being the final round (quickly corrected the next day), but as it is
the 8th round is still being displayed on November 1st! Go figure.
>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!
"Professionals are losing interest", says Mr. Schroeder. I'd be
embarrassed to associated with such an organization.
Albert Silver
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