Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 13:03:11 04/09/01
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On April 09, 2001 at 11:55:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 08, 2001 at 14:23:35, Rajen Gupta wrote: > > >>hi: in todays 'news of the world'(british newspaper)on pg 12 i read that the >>police are investigating the braingames company and its chairman for being a > >Braingames chairman is Raymond Keene. > >>front for the russian mafia; specifically about allegations of having laundered >>£3 million in dirty money. (it does n't say anything about the match being fixed >>although it does mention that the company ''braingames''which was created to >>organise the world chess championship was a front for money laundering by the >>russian mafia. >> >>sounds a bit fishy to me > >Many tournaments in this world, also non-chess tournaments >are getting sponsored and received in past sponsorship from >what we in western world call 'dubious grounds'. > >Let's just remember olympic games 1936 Berlin (Hitler), >world championships soccer 1972 in Argentina (Fidela), >Olympic games 1980 Moscow (SSSR), >match fischer around 1992 against his old opponent >and even close in the computerchess world we had >also our computerchess world championship in Jakarta >where i didn't go to for that reason. This is off-topic, Just for the record, the World Cup in Argentina was in 1978 and the name of the dictator was Videla. I don't know what you mean with "sponsorship", but that World Cup was rather "organized" by a country that happened to be suffering a terrible dictatorship. It was used internally as propaganda but there was nothing particularly wrong about the sources of the money, but the rest, the dictatorship, was all evil. The money to build the stadia just came from the people, through taxes, and sponsors were the usual (Coca-Cola, Adidas et al). In fact, the organization of the World Cup started and was approved during democracy but ended in the military dictatorship. (1976 was the coup d'etat, two years before the World Cup). It was a real shame that the foundation of a world class football (soccer) team overlapped the darkest years of Argentina. This was my first Off-topic message. Now I will shut up. Regards, Miguel > >However, whereever the money came from, i'm sure that Kasparov didn't >lose intentionally. Instead he tried obviously hard to push for victory >and failed because Kramnik is simply a way better player in all respects >except opening preparement. > >>rajen > >Vincent
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