Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 09:59:04 05/16/00
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Dear Computer Chess Club, This exclusion does nothing to promote chess. Limiting the participants is akin to telling minorities to get to the back of the bus. It reminds me of the stance that the government of France has taken regarding the introduction of English or German or any "foreign" language into the perfect language-French. French of course is just corrupted Latin. FIDE is just one group that guards the perfect game-Chess. I suppose that the only thing to do is boycott FIDE events as Kasparov has. Typical bureaucratic bullcrap. Please don't take offense at this post. I like French and German and English. I don't like exclusionary policies. Computer programs are nothing more than transmogrified human intelligence. Limiting their participation is the same as the puerile antics of the country club snobs. Tim Frohlick - The Egalitarian On May 16, 2000 at 10:40:22, Frederic Friedel wrote: >I have heard that this weekend FIDE banned computers from any rated tournaments, >plus announced sanctions against organisers who ignore this ruling. Does anyone >have more information or a URL on this matter? > >I know there was a FIDE Presidential Board meeting at Simpsons-in-the-Strand in >London, where Kirsan Ilyumzhinov confirmed that the 2000 FIDE World Championship >would start on Saturday November 25 in New Deli, India, with the finals moving >to Tehran (really!).
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