Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 08:58:44 03/23/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 18:42:36, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I agree its ridiculous, but its Kasparov chess that is ridiculous! Xie Jun did the reasonable thing, refuse to play when more or less every condition in the contract where broken! I feel Kasparovchess need to clean up their act! Torstein
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