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Subject: Re: Another high profile company goes out

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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