Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:17:59 04/22/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 14:48:54, Alastair Grant wrote: >Without judging the content of this open letter, we should however note that the >president of the ICCA is a close business partner of one of the parties >involved. Ossi Weiner since many years distributes the chess computers developed >and produced by David Levy, > >Alastair there is even more: all of them are completely connected with each other doing business. not only levy + weiner, also friedel, H+G (weiner there), chessbase, kasparov, saitek, niggemann, they are all closely connected, advisor-contracts, negotiations, pr-campaigns, deals with GM's and IM's to launch a product, whenever there is a computer-chess-championship, the parties meet each other and make deals, the board of the ICCA IS and WAS heavily involved in those deals. now some new people come into the group and we get for a little while a little chaos, and strange behaviour, for all of us to recognize, even for the most naiv persons. BUT: the professionals of making deals get control back (as you see) and organize it the way they are used to do it for years and years. all in the name of good relationship between programmers and business-companies AND ICCA. the ICCA IS in fact a business company. they sell programmers and their products. the championships are a market place. and the persons who know each other for almost 20 years and more know how to make good deals. is it nessesary to name each single deal they have "negotiated" ? to name all the business relations with the amount of money and the persons involved ? or can we disuss without lies ?!
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