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Subject: Re: Open letter by Xie Jun on her match with Deep Junior at TWIC

Author: Martin

Date: 08:07:30 03/21/00

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Hello!

On March 21, 2000 at 09:06:50, Chessfun wrote:

>On March 21, 2000 at 04:40:40, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>It is not clear to me why Xie Jun did not agree to play via telephone.
>>
>>She says it was to avoid the possibility of cheating on DJ's side.
>>
>
>What she in fact wrote is:
>"It is also obvious that I could not agree to play by telephone:
>the contract stated very clearly that "all games will be played through the
>Internet".
>Thanks.

Yes, true. But Tom's observation that the other argument is true as well, imho.
(Plaing via the internet doesn't avoid cheating. What a nonsense.) Nevertheless
after the two recent events I think it became quite obvious that
www.kasparovchess.com is still having about 1300 Elo in organizing chessevents
via the internet...

Martin



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