Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 08:13:40 10/30/97
Text taken from the Gambit Site...
* The Paris stock exchange is well guarded. It is difficult to get
in,
so there are nearly no visitors to the Championship. Even the
owners
of the two Paris chess shops do not seem interested to go there!
* The tournament room is beautiful, but the air is very sticky, and
the
tournament results are written by hand on a small piece of paper
which
is stuck to the wall! As a consolation you can watch the ups and
downs
of the share prices from the gallery!
General question to the ICCA: Why are professionals losing interest?
Why invest $4000-$5000 in such a poor organization on this part of
the tournament?
Although this is not the main reason for me not participating in Paris
the
above is certainly one of them. I am pretty sure *one* email to the ICC
for
instance would have been enough to get all the games life on the ICC.
A very poor performance of the ICCA this time.
I hope they will change this for the future.
- Ed Schroder -
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