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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