Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 02:04:39 05/09/01
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On May 08, 2001 at 09:39:05, Larry Proffer wrote: >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. Ed added Thoralf as an eye witness for the discussions of the last two days. Enrique added the BGN-people to view, follow and take part of the discussions. >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? I still think Enrique is an excellent and impartial arbiter. Bertil
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