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Subject: Re: Open letter from the ICCA

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 02:59:56 04/23/01

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On April 22, 2001 at 17:52:22, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>Some days ago I walked into a very sleazy bar - the kind I use to visit - and
>some big guy and his gang came up to me and wanted a fight because "I didn't
>belong there".
>
>The bartender ducked behind the counter, and a lot of people fled the joint
>bumping over tables and chairs. An undertaker pressed his business card into my
>hand while ducking for cover outside.
>
>
>Then I simply said: "I'm into computer chess."
>
>
>Next second I found myself alone in that bar. Only the machete knife remembered
>me of the guy just standing in front of me a second ago.
>
>
>I was informed the big guy and his gang have entered the government protection
>scheme, and have all gotten a new identity.
>
>Weird.
>
>
>J.


LOL.
Seirawan wrote a hair-raising account of the Keene/Levy controversy, including
some computer chess points, in his April 17, 2000 edition of Inside Chess:
http://www.insidechess.com/pubmessage/pubmessage3.html
Cheers,
Mark





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