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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