Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 16:45:32 12/27/00
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On December 27, 2000 at 14:09:57, Peter Berger wrote: >Quote from the rules to determine the next FIDE worldchampion at >http://www.fide.com/release/main.cgi?body=1&id=67 : > >9. The best 8 chess players from worldwide Internet must be select during the >period of time announced by FIDE COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL LTD. In this period all >Internet users through the world are welcome to play on the official FIDE Web >Site www.fide.com between each other. Everyone who joint competition on the >Internet (and do not have already FIDE rating) will receive 1600 points FIDE >rating for start. At the end of the period of this competition 128 players will >be select, who then will play in knocked out Internet tournament to find the 8 >finalists who will be invite to play live in the next World Chess Championship. > >10. The World Chess Championship will start every year on the 25th of November >and will be knocked out tournament among 128 chess players (8 from the Internet >among them), where all of them will start from the first round to straggle for >the prize fund of USD$ 3.000.000. > > >Amazing, isn't it ? > >pete How can the FIDE keep all the entries honest? i.e. no one secretly using a computer... Mark
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