Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 17:33:28 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 05:59:26, Tony Werten wrote: >July 5th is the opening of the Olympiad. Don't know when chess will start. >There >are over 200 countries in the world. Somebody will have an independence day >during the event as well. Last year, in august, you were the only american >operator.( How many were there in London ?) Now in July there is a problem >which >would keep all americans away ? So you make it extremely inconvenient for us to attend and then you point out that our poor attendance is the reason for more inconvenience? Am I the only person who finds this comment incredibly short-sighted? >True. Problem is that there are no sponsors in the US. As you might have >noticed, there hasn't been a major event in the US for over 10 years. And you admit in a later post that an attempt to find a US sponsor was "not entirely" made. Maybe if somebody had entirely attempted to find a sponsor over the past 10 years, a major event would have been held in the US in the past 10 years. >Irony is that the ICCA charter (alternate championships between europe and >america ) feels to me to, was meant to "protect" europe ie make sure that the >americans would not organise all the events. Now they do not return the favor. >Making sure you are being treated fair is easier than treating fair. Great, so the "fair" solution to make sure that the US doesn't hold all the events is to not hold any of the events in the US? -Tom
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