Author: Amir Ban
Date: 00:37:48 12/14/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 22:40:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 13, 1999 at 18:18:22, Will Singleton wrote: > >>On December 13, 1999 at 16:29:50, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>>On December 13, 1999 at 13:10:39, Ed Schröder wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>>Amir, can you post Junior's 40/120 results against GM's. I vaguely remember >>>>yours were good too. >>>> >>>>Ed >>>> >>> >>>If you have the Junior5 CD, there's a junior5.cbh on it with many tournament >>>games played in various tournaments. If you don't have it, tell me and I'll >>>email it your way. >>> >>>It contains most of it, but not all. I'm afraid some of Junior's record is lost, >>>or at least seriously missing, like the match against Judith Polgar, Budapest >>>'96 (lost 4-2). >>> >>>I hope to add to that record through the Club Kasparov Online Tournament in >>>February. Also, old CCC readers who remembers that Junior was excluded from >>>playing in the major league in October 97, will be interested to know that the >>>Israeli Chess Federation has done more mental acrobatics in its attitude to >>>computers and has reversed that decision. So I expect Junior to start playing in >>>the 2000 league season, and I hope I will have something to report on that soon. >>> >>>Amir >> >>No kidding. I wonder if they'll take non-Israeli programs? :) >> >>Will > > >I think Amir will probably have a lot more trouble than he expects. Many years >ago the USCF finally relaxed the computer membership rules. And we all expected >big things. But while they relaxed the rules, they let the organizers add (NC) >to an event if they didn't want to deal with computers. 99.99% of all USCF >events are now (NC). So they made the rules more liberal, but then slammed the >door in our faces when we arrived... You misunderstand. I'm not talking about taking part in tournaments. That's always been open to us, except for national championships. I'm well aware of the issues and politics involved, and I've written on it in the ICCAJ a few years ago. I'm talking about playing in the league. That's a team event with a whole-season scheduled activity. There are many league divisions, starting with the national league, and down to many minor, regional divisions. The competition is a round-robin within the division, and each round takes place over 5 boards. Sort of like college basketball, only much more exciting :) Junior played with the Kfar-Saba team two seasons in the second league, and one season in the national league, when it played 5th board (1st board was GM Vadim Milov). It was then excluded by the league committee, and the Federation confirmed this decision in October 1997. Junior will play next year in Rishon-Lezion, where I expect the team will include Gelfand and Alterman, and maybe Sophie Polgar. No local organizer will have any say in this. Amir
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