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Subject: Re: Losing interest even more...

Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 04:35:06 10/31/97

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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.
>

Hello, it is clear that there is security! Point for me was:
I was very much surprised to see NO visitor at all when I arrived.
The following days some 4-5 visiting people appeared!

>>Even the owners of the two Paris chess shops do not seem
>>interested to go there!

I have been to both shops, and it is as I say. Both owners
had not been there until round 6-7. They said they MIGHT
possibly go one time.

>
>It's a desert!
>
>>* The tournament room is beautiful, but the air is very sticky,
>
>Bring a spray of perfume,  poor boy.

I heard this complaint by operators and I felt it myself.
You could not open a window or move a curtain! It is
all well preserved in a historic room!



>
>>  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!

YES, but only slowly did they come into gear. At the beginning there was
nothing they told me. Look at the official site today! Round 7 is the
last!
Games up to round 4.
TITUS had a complete botched site at least until last night. There
were results in for the last rounds. Obviously they were not looking
at their own pages!

I was not complaining, I was just describing the situation,
and yes, now I am back home, and it is very difficult to get any
results out of that place, isn't it.
Bert Seifriz/gambitsoft.com




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