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Subject: Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:02:52 07/09/04

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On July 09, 2004 at 13:37:05, Paolo Casaschi wrote:

>The website of one of the main Italian newspapers talks about the WCCC2004
>in Israel.
>
>http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Scienze_e_Tecnologie/2004/07_Luglio/08/scacchi_computer.shtml
>
>Interersting, there has been no mention of the "real" chess worldchampionship
>(I mean the FIDE one).
>
>Final remark, the article claims that Giancarlo Pascutto is Italian (allthough
>living in Belgium). Is this correct or just some nationalistic hope of the
>Italian newspaper ?

There is some wishful thinking and they are a bit right.

I was born in Belgium, lived here my whole life, and both my parents
are Belgian (my father was naturalized from Italian->Belgian). I don't
speak Italian.

Logically I should have been a Belgian, since both my parents are, but
there was an administrative mistake when my parents married which had
as a consequence that I ended up having a double nationality.

We did not actually know this until at my 18th birthday I got an Italian
letter. When I asked my father, he translated it and it was the draft for
the Italian army!

Figuring out what happened took some days of working the beaurocracies
of both countries.

So technically they are right, I am (also) an Italian, and I indeed work
for a Belgian company (my own!).

--
GCP



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