Author: blass uri
Date: 10:29:25 05/15/00
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On May 15, 2000 at 13:19:46, Andrew Dados wrote: >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. 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. >> >>-- Enjoy :) > >Last one means effectively banning programs from tournaments. I don't see one >rational reason to do so. >-Andrew- They cannot prevent people to calculate rating for tournament with computers. They can only avoid calculating the result for the fide rating but in this case I think that nobody should care about the fide rating list and there should be another rating list. Uri
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