Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 12:01:42 01/24/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 13:48:28, margolies,marc wrote: >Rolf, you speak elegantly. But there was corruption in Russian Chess long before >there was any money to do it. We could point back to historical markers such as >Salo Flohr being sort of required to cancel his match with alekhine after he >took up residence in Russia, or perhaps the drawn outcome of botvinnik-Bronstein >world championship. >And in the rare event that i should ever be quaified to expend moral judgements >on others (eg. pope dies, buffy the vampire killer gets slain, etc. etc.) i >rather doubt that the mortal sin of greed would be on the top of my s***t list >as applied to those rich fat cat chess programmers. Perhaps I could think of >just a couple of other failings which come first. >remember to rtfm and never buy software ending in ".0"---your friend marc If I, in my weak English, might have given the impression that I would mean one single of the many chess programmers who are allegedly corrupt or whatever, then this is completely false. They are not! I was just talking about GM players or also sponsors who, either in the past or now could well be corrupted by money, fame or power. That, although there is no such a big deal anyway in chess, we have really bad consequences because of greed is also clear. Greed combined for money and power. Ok not in the dimensions of Space Shuttle Promotion. Often you can see the mechanism much better in smaller fields. In respect for the charta of this club I won't give names but in Germany recently the number one retailer for the monopolist began his sponsorship for the only existing alternative chess computer journal, so that now we have only one big producer, and one big retailer who's partner of the producer _and_ the only alternative press product. Sure I know that in Russia there is another product and in Siberia there is even a very strong chess program called Siberian! So, the only hope so far is Russia together with Siberia. I have no knowledge about the market in USA. :) Rolf Tueschen
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