Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 14:42:45 05/13/01
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On May 13, 2001 at 17:23:23, Ritter Rost wrote: > >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. Yes, very amusing. But, I don't think it actually accounts for the demise of Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Limited which appears to hold a lot of debt and not much else. Strange. I shall continue to research. > > >> >>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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