Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 04:33:52 04/23/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 16:17:59, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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 ?! "They" also killed JFK :-) Thorsten you crack me up. Regards Jonas
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