Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 06:39:05 05/08/01
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On May 08, 2001 at 08:09:41, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic339.html#4 "Brain Games plc announced the signing of a million dollar contract on Tuesday 1 May 2001. The contract is with the state of Bahrain for a million dollar prize fund plus a further million dollars in back-up for the Man v Machine Challenge to be held in October. The main Bahrain figure involved is His Excellency Yousuf Shirawi, former Bahrain chess champion and member of the Bahrain government. The contract was signed for Brain Games Network by CEO David Massey. Grandmaster Ray Keene will be appointed Match Director while Enrique Irazoqui and Eric Schiller be the arbiters." And where is Bertil and the SSDF? 1. Any post linking Bertil's involvement as "independant expert" with the SSDF drew a posts from other SSDF members denying SSDF involvement. 2. When Enrique tried to draw the SSDF back involved with his gratuitous publication of the CC-list of his email 'discussions' with Ed (ie. not only Bertil but Thoralf as well); this resulted in a rapid statement that Thoralf (President of SSDF) was only in 'at the last minute' ... 'as an observer' ... 'and said nothing'. 3. Ed denied this, and said Thoralf was in from the start. 4. Bertil then broke ranks with Enrique and stated that his advice was 'Junior, Fritz, Shredder *and* Tiger' 5. Bertil distanced himself further when replying to a post which contained the expression "impartial experts". Bertil added a prefix, so the phrase became "so called impartial experts". 6. When a post was made pointing out to Bertil that "so called" negated the sense of "impartial" and could therefore be assumed to mean "non-impartial", that "he could hardly be referring to himself", and therefore implied that "Enrique was a non impartial expert" - Bertil said nothing, and just let the posts stand. 7. Bertil was in on the thing from the start, presumably knows plenty, would have been expected to go to Bahrain. 8. Now, as far as can be read into the press statement above, Bertil is not going to Bahrain and has publicly stated, in a roundabout way, why. Can Bertil tell us why he does not appear to be going to Bahrain, what he knows, and what does the "so called impartial expert" comment actually mean? If not-impartial, who or what is he suggesting Enrique is "partial" towards? Does he consider Enrique will be "an impartial arbiter", or "a so called impartial arbiter" at the actual event?
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