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Subject: Re: money money money, ...

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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