Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:29:00 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." > >Now he can choose: will he take 50 bucks or not? >Our empoverished Russian thinks: "If I am swindled, I can be swindling too". >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!". > > >Jeroen ;-} No quite so. Of course you ever can get a kind of point using a preposterous caricature. Your manner to strech my comparison is somewhat...well dear Jeroen, somewhat less an example of what was done to those poor souls than an example of your good writting and sense of humour. No problem, I love you the same. Serious, those people was not SO MUCH pushed beyond the limit. Were they sudedenly presented with Fritz? They did not know? They were cheated? If so was the case I am prepared to resign my flag. Cheers Fernando
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