Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:42:36 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 18:41:17, Peter Kasinski wrote: >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 I think the whole thing is ridiculous, again. bruce
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