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Subject: Re: Refusing to play by phone

Author: Tina Long

Date: 18:59:50 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.

I think she was drumming up opinion against ClubK, not Junior (which is a dumb
computer program) or the Junior "Authors".  The Junior team she refers to were
ClubK people.

>however one snetence gives the game away-her refusal to play by
>telephone-i dont see the diff

YOU don't see the difference.  Contactual Lawers could probably see the
difference.  This is a big money game with contractual agreements not met.


>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

WRONG
>
>rajen

The failures in this and the Adams game were ClubK failures.
I agree that this was a farce.
I hope the next match they promote is moree successful.

Just my Opinions,
Tina Long



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