Author: Tony Werten
Date: 02:39:28 05/10/00
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On May 10, 2000 at 04:56:29, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >On May 10, 2000 at 00:08:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>I have seen the light thanks to those guys in Holland that "lose" his games just >>because they do not agree with the rules of the tournament where they, anyway, >>rushed to get into it. So I will hire an empoverished russian GM for 50 bucks >>and after losing the game in, more or less, I guess, 24 moves, I will say or I >>will make to understand to those that "knows" that what I did was to boycoot his >>ideas about the future of the Russian federation. Of course if I get a draw i >>will say I am the next fisher. >>fernando > > > >Even worse with those Dutch guys. To draw the comparison further with your >proposal, you hire a Russian GM for 50 bucks and agree to play a game with him >on Barbados, under the swaying palm trees. > >After he has agreed and signed the contact, you tell him you decided it will be >a 12 game tournament and it will be in the middle of the Negev desert, at noon, >but he will get $70, in stead of $50. He tells you that's not the agreement, as >it is standing clearly in the contract. He should play one game for $50, on >Barbados, that was agreed. > >But you take your pen, scratch away some lines, and change it, saying "here you >are, this is the contact, sir. Play on, don't be a sissy." At this point he has a choice. Accepting the new contract or not. If not he can still claim the old contract, but he won't get the 70 $ > >Now he can choose: will he take 50 bucks or not? ie Does he accept the new contract ? >Our empoverished Russian thinks: "If I am swindled, I can be swindling too". He thinks he is swindled, he's telling everybody he is, and after a while he believes it himself. Bottom line is, he accepted the new contract. >After playing twelve games in a row each resigning after the first move he >cashes in and leaves (for a beer, probably -as it's damn hot in the Negev). > >And you, Fernando, stay behind, and tell all your friends here: "I've been >swindled!". As he has been. The guy accepted the new terms and did not do what he was expected to do. Actually a reason to not pay him at all. Tony > > >Jeroen ;-}
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