Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 15:41:17 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 18:10:19, Rajen Gupta wrote: >It is very easy to taken in by Xie jungs open letter where she tries to curry >sympathy with the chess loving masses-and try to drum up opinion against >junior.however one snetence gives the game away-her refusal to play by >telephone-i dont see the diff between playing over the net (which after all is >nothing but a telephone line) and playing over a conventional phone-in either >case it would be very difficult to verify cheating unless an unbiased moderator >was physically present at each site. > >Her refusal to play by phone when the internet connections were down completely >exposes her thoroughly > >rajen I read it differently. It would appear that she was dealing with people less than professional in financial terms. With the contract stipulating that all games be played over the internet, I assumed that Xie Jun was justifiably concerned that such an obvious deviation from the letter (if not the spirit) of the document would be tantamount to forfeiting her fee. This, of course, was just my impression. PK
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