Author: Randy Schmidt
Date: 04:41:52 12/23/00
I am not sure you have all seen this, but Chessco/Thinker's Press has issued a retraction of its original report that Kasparov's site being closed. This is a cut and paste from Chessco's website. original: MALCOLM PEIN IN NEW YORK REPORTS THE KASPAROVCHESS.COM BUST Just got an e-mail from our English correspondent and publisher of Chess (London) that he is in NY to see the dismantling of "KasparovChess.com" - to the tune of $10 million down the drain! I wonder WHO got stuck on this project? Kasparov's first website was put together (Kasparov.com I believe) and the webmasters are still fuming over not being paid. MIGs from This Week in Chess left that job for big dollars with Kasparov-wonder if that happened? So, was this on Kasparov's mind when he was playing Kramnik? Is it a fire sale, or "arson?" Will anyone do business with Garry in the future? If you have any rational and logical answers send them on. If you have some outlandish, and highly improbably theory, you just might be right, but send it into "Chess Life" because they will publish anything. retraction: AN APOLOGY FROM ME TO MALCOLM PEIN I printed some recent info on "CG News" about the dismantling of KasparovChess.com and $10M going down the tubes. Malcolm didn't like my interpretation of what he said, nor some other things I said which I derived from other sources. So I am reprinting here his latest quote. Also, to those who do not know better, Malcolm is not a London Correspondent of ours (paid or otherwise) but a correspondent who resides in London-and who asks me for discretion. So for the whiney person who ran to Malcolm to tell him what I said (they read CG News in England too) here is what Malcolm writes: " The Kasparov.com operation is being reduced in size which reflects the current contraction of the general dotcom market. The World Schools Chess Championship continues, the online club continues, the chess news output remains and the website is still very much up there and will be for the forseeable future. " It remains the largest and most comprehensive chess site on the web in my opinion. I understand the operation has funds to continue on a less expansive basis for a considerable time. Since literally 100s of chess players have received, by my reckoning over 2million dollars in fees from KCO my guess is that they will be queuing up to do business with Kasparov again anytime any place. I certainly will.- Malcolm Pein How can someone "misinterpret" going to 'NY to see the dismantling of Kasparov.com' from 'The Kasparov.com operation is being reduced in size which reflects the current contraction of the general dotcom market'? I guess there is a National Enquirer in the chess world also.
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