Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:00:38 09/26/04
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On September 26, 2004 at 14:03:24, Mark Young wrote: >On September 26, 2004 at 07:38:33, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>Uri, >> >>I understand your points and personally I agree with you, but here (in Italy) we >>say "every mind is a small world" meaning that everybody think different and I >>would add that also weak players wants tournaments where they can win money as >>well. >> >>If we are not able to convince them, and I do not think it will be easy at all, >>we have to make things as they want to avoid having no tournaments of all kinds. >> >>Sandro > >I don't agree with Uri. You must give value and respect to all players. We don't >play to support strong players for the sake of supporting them. If you support weak players by big prizes the result will be that strong players will pretend to be weak players in order to win prizes. You need to understand that in every sport strong players earn more money. It is absurd that some under 1600 player earns 10,000$ in USA when even GM's usually earn less money from one tournament and it is bad for chess because players at IM's level will have no motivation to show their real ability because they can earn more by pretending to be players under 1600. Uri
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