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Subject: Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 15:22:25 07/09/04

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On July 09, 2004 at 14:02:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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

Come my brother, we accept you as Italian.  :)

-elc.



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