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Subject: Re: Losing interest even more...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 08:16:40 10/30/97

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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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