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Subject: Re: FIDE news

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 10:12:44 05/15/00

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On May 15, 2000 at 13:08:31, Shay Bushinsky wrote:

>The FIDE presidential board convening in London headed by Kirsan Illumzhinov had
>reached the following resolutions:
>
>1. To hold the FIDE world championships finalin Iran.

I thought that Iran had chess banned by the same politicians that still rule the
country...

> In the event that an
>Israeli player
>qualifies the championships will be relocated to Elista in Kalimikia.
>
>2. Not to hold the preliminaries in Iran because 4 Israeli players (Gelfand,
>Psakhis, Smirin, Sutovsky)
>are playing but to have them in New-Delhi. Iran wanted to host the whole event
>but backed out
>in view of these participants.
>
>3. To take measures against tournaments that have computers as participants. No
>ratings will be
>calculated for such tournaments.
>
>These three decisions though different in nature pretty much sum up the
>International situation
>that our "mind sport" is stuck in.

Pretty much, yes.

Enrique

>-- Enjoy :)



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