Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:22:39 05/10/00
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On May 10, 2000 at 15:03:31, Paolo Casaschi wrote: >IMHO, > >if a tournament organizer has the right to attract the attention on >his tournament by doing silly things (e.g. inviting a computer to play >in a national championship), >then the chessplayers have the right to protest in a sensational way, >as they think is more appropriate to drag attention. In the end, they >have the right to say their own word on the futire of their profession. > >Of course, resigning in 4 moves or playing silly and losing in few more >moves is not really "professional" as simply refusing to play at all, >but why the players should behave better than organizers? > >In the end everybody is happy: >- the players get more attention on their protest >- the organizers get more attention on the event (and columns on newspapers) > >Then, who should be unhappy? We are. F.
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