Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 14:10:34 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 No the brain games chairman is Sir something or other.he is the ex-chirman of the conservative party and an ex-MP. he owns the company. his name can be found in the match reports on the week in chess;i checked, it is the same name as the one who is being investigated by the police.i dont have the paper now but i will try to find it and let you know the name. > >>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. > >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 there's a difference between these multi national, multi player event where the money is to be made from massive construction contracts and sale of advertising and on-site commerce. here there was none of this-no massive structures were built, no advertising, no hamburger stalls, no publicity, nothing. why would the mafia suddenly develop a love for chess? only way they could make money was by fixing the match (as has every match in the 20th century involving 2 soviet players been)thats not to say that this match was fixed-only makes one think twice. rajen rajen
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