Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 14:23:23 05/13/01
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On May 13, 2001 at 15:41:48, Alastair Grant wrote: >Are you talking about David Levy's company? If yes, who is going to rescue the >ICCA? > The story is here: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=71910+ <quote> But Mr Keene says the abundance of eggheads was a common organisational problem not confined to the Olympiad's situation. "Every five years you find some Mensa executive hanging upside down from a tree wearing women's underwear," said Mr Keene, chess grand master and author of a world record 108 books on chess. "When you get a lot of people with enormous IQs around they are very reluctant to listen to anybody else with a valid point of view." </quote> Sounds like good analysis to me. > >On May 13, 2001 at 14:32:16, Larry Proffer wrote: > >> >> >>There's another high profile company intimately connected to the computer chess >>world in liquidation this week. >> >>Debts of Pounds Sterling 46455.28 (nearly half a million quid) >> >>Loans to be repaid of Pounds Sterling 2,008,000.00 (two million quid) >> >>Assets valued at Pounds Sterling 9582.00 (nine thousand quid) >> >>That's a deficit owing of around 2.5 mn Sterling. >> >>I wonder who that was? >> >>Will he/she/it/they come and tell us how it all happened? >> >>Who he/she/it/they is/ tell us who they are? >> >>And how he/she/it/they intends to pay all these creditors?
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